Tips, lessons learned, and news from the REVSYS team on Django, Python, PostgreSQL, and operations.
After 19 years running REVSYS, I’d invest in better tools sooner and trust my gut more often. The right software and reusable internal tools save far more time and money than they cost and trusting my instincts about clients, projects, and partnerships is usually best.
’Twas the deploy before Christmas, when all through the office
Not a pipeline was failing, not even a bug.
The containers were built by the runner with care,
In hopes that green checkmarks soon would be there.
Stop letting bot traffic evict your customers' sessions. A simple Redis configuration switch from LRU to LFU solved our crawler problem, with a Django configuration example.
Stop link rot before users ever see it: this guide shows how one lightweight app scans your models, flags broken URLs, and slots neatly into any Django workflow.
The 4 Docker Sins Killing Your Python Productivity. You changed a single line of code and Docker has to rebuild everything! Dramatically improve both fresh builds and rebuilds when working in Docker.
Frank left his last corporate job in April of 2007 to start working on REVSYS full time. Prior to that he was just doing the occasional consulting and freelance work under the REVSYS brand.
Come have some snacks and drinks at our new office.
gunicorn+gevent and Celery can be tricky. There is a setting that is often missed that keeps your Redis connections from increasing until they reach the maximum.
Streamline your FluxCD upgrade in Kubernetes with this concise guide. Learn how a simple re-run of the flux bootstrap command can effortlessly update your FluxCD version, saving you time and hassle.
Test output is often an afterthought. You can improve your flow and slightly gamify your bug hunting by combining the wonderful Rich Python library and pytest.
