Django has added support for Postgres's built-in full-text searching as of version 1.10. This is a great alternative to a heavier search system such as elasticsearch or SOLR, when we want decent search capabilities without having to setup and maintain another service. Postgres's full-text search is Good Enough for … Read more

When running Django's runserver management command in a Docker container or under a PyCharm run configuration (in Linux at least), I very often had issues with the process not getting killed in a timely manner. The symptom is that the process doesn't die immediately after it receives a SIGTERM or … Read more