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Showing 1 to 6 of 10 blog posts tagged with "postgresql".
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Postgres Present and Future (PyCon 2016 Must-See Talk: 6/6)
Coming from a heavy database admin background, I found Craig Kerstiens’s “Postgres Present and Future" to be incredibly well organized and engaging. Read more
August 18, 2016 -
Query Expressions are Amazing
The Django 1.8 release added support for complex query expressions. The documentation has some nice examples but they don't do justice to how crazy awesome these are. In this p... Read more
June 20, 2016 -
OpenBlock Geocoder, Part 1: Data Model and Geocoding
As Tobias mentioned in Scraping Data and Web Standards, Caktus is collaborating with the UNC School of Journalism to help develop Open Rural (the code is on GitHub). Open Rural ... Read more
December 12, 2011
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Basic Django deployment with virtualenv, fabric, pip and rsync
Deployment is usually a tedious process with lots of tinkering until everything is setup just right. We deploy quite a few Django sites on a regular basis here at Caktus and sti... Read more
April 22, 2010 -
Setting PostgreSQL's SHMMAX in Mac OS X 10.5 (Leopard)
If you've ever tried to increase the shared_buffers setting in your postgresql.conf to a value that exceeds the amount of shared memory supported by your operating system kernel... Read more
August 13, 2009 -
Explicit Table Locking with PostgreSQL and Django
By default, Django doesn't do explicit table locking. This is OK for most read-heavy scenarios, but sometimes you need guaranteed, exclusive access to the data. Caktus uses Post... Read more
May 26, 2009
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