The Ultimate Django Series: Part 3

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Master advanced techniques and best practices for building professional-quality backends. Following the concepts we mastered in Part 2, we're now going to take our backend to the next level.

You'll learn how to:

  • Build an API for uploading files
  • Write automated tests with PyTest
  • Find performance bottlenecks
  • Implement caching with Redis
  • Run background jobs with Celery
  • Deploy your backends to the cloud
  • Plus much, much more.

By the end of Part 3, you'll have mastered these concepts, which means you'll be able to produce professional-quality backends with confidence.

About the Author: codewithmosh (Mosh Hamedani)

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Hi! I am Mosh Hamedani! I am a passionate and pragmatic software engineer with 20 years of professional experience and I've taught over 10 million people how to code or how to become professional software engineers through my YouTube channel and online courses. I have a Bachelor of Science in Software Engineering and a Master of Science in Networks Systems. My mission is to make coding and software engineering accessible to everyone through courses that are simple to digest, and practical to implement.

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1
1- Welcome Demo
00:50
2
2- Setting Up the Project
05:23
3
1- Introduction
00:21
4
2- Managing Media Files
03:55
5
3- Adding Images to Products
03:00
6
4- Building an API to Upload Images
06:15
7
5- Returning Images from the API
02:50
8
6- Validating Uploaded Files
04:01
9
7- Setting Up the Client App
01:48
10
8- Enabling CORS
05:34
11
9- Managing Images in the Admin
09:13
12
1- Introduction
00:16
13
2- Setting up a Fake SMTP Server
02:34
14
3- Configuring the Email Backend
02:39
15
4- Sending Emails
04:35
16
5- Attaching Files
02:06
17
6- Sending Templated Emails
04:59
18
1- Introduction
00:16
19
2- Introduction to Celery
02:02
20
3- Message Brokers
02:51
21
4- Installing Redis
02:58
22
5- Celery and Windows
00:50
23
6- Setting Up Celery
05:30
24
7- Creating and Executing Tasks
05:40
25
8- Scheduling Periodic Tasks
03:54
26
9- Monitoring Celery Tasks
01:42
27
1- Introduction
00:23
28
2- What is Automated Testing
02:12
29
3- Test Behaviours, Not Implementations
02:51
30
4- Tooling
02:02
31
5- Your First Test
04:45
32
6- Running Tests
05:02
33
7- Skipping Tests
00:55
34
8- Continuous Testing
01:57
35
9- Running and Debugging Tests in VSCode
02:30
36
10- Authenticating the User
00:58
37
11- Single or Multiple Assertions
05:49
38
12- Fixtures
07:39
39
13- Creating Model Instances
09:00
40
1- Introduction
00:20
41
2- Why Performance Testing
01:23
42
3- Installing Locust
00:33
43
4- Creating a Test Script
07:52
44
5- Running a Test Script
04:14
45
6- Running a Performance Test
02:53
46
7- Performance Optimization Techniques
03:52
47
8- Profiling with Silk
07:58
48
9- Verifying Optimizations
03:45
49
10- Stress Testing
02:49
50
1- Introduction
00:17
51
2- What is Caching
02:24
52
3- Cache Backends
01:34
53
4- Simulating a Slow API
01:11
54
5- Getting a Baseline Performance Benchmark
01:25
55
6- Installing Redis
00:56
56
7- Configuring Caching
01:17
57
8- Using the Low-level Cache API
03:28
58
9- Caching Views
04:50
59
10- Verifying Optimizations
01:48
60
11- Managing Redis Cache Content
02:41
61
1- Introduction
00:17
62
2- Adding the Home Page
02:38
63
3- Adding Static Assets
03:08
64
4- Collecting Static Assets
02:48
65
5- Serving Static Assets
01:00
66
6- Configuring Logging
06:28
67
7- Logging
05:31
68
8- Managing Development and Production Settings
07:14
69
9- Serving the Application with Gunicorn
02:10
70
1- Introduction
00:20
71
2- Hosting Options
00:54
72
3- Adding Project to Git
02:04
73
4- Getting Started with Heroku
01:27
74
5- Creating a Heroku App
02:00
75
6- Setting Environment Variables
01:50
76
7- Creating a Procfile
01:59
77
8- Provisioning a MySQL Database
03:51
78
9- Provisioning a Redis Instance
02:52
79
10- Provisioning an SMTP Server
01:36
80
11- Deploying the Application
05:53
81
12 - Populating the Database
02:14
82
13- Dockerizing the App
09:57
83
14- Course Wrap Up
00:25
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