Thoughts on pentests from a Django developer’s perspective

9 May 2023

At djangsters we care about security. We care so much about security that the batteries-included approach to it that Django follows is one of the main reasons Django is a fundamental building block for our web apps.

Hello Vite: Sinking my teeth into Vite

15 March 2023

I wasn't initially excited about Vite, I mean I was excited about the idea of a faster dev server, but I wasn't a fan of Vue. Sebastian on the other hand was very excited about it, and he was right, Vite is awesome.

Automate chores - be happy - repeat

22 February 2023

Scheduled or just repetitive tasks tend to feel like chores, sucking out creativity and inspiration. Regardless they still have to get done. As software developers we are not an exception in having such tasks, but we have something up our sleeve - namely skills to automate!

JavaScript Developers Are Using Shiny Rusty Tools. Here’s Why.

24 November 2022

The benchmark results for Next.js 12 are convincing. But is it worth the switch?

Integrating React with Django

19 September 2022

The base Idea is not that weird, it’s not even new. We are just extending a Django template with javascript to give it interactivity. That’s it.

A djangster story on Storybook

23 February 2022

When we started work on a new home page for one of our clients, we opted to grow our toolset by introducing Storybook among other things. Here are our thoughts on it.

Beware of vendor lock-in

19 January 2022

No one likes to see a business relationship end, right? Open Source yay, Vendor lock-in nay? Let's have a deeper look.

Taking off with Salesforce

13 July 2021

Our Salesforce synchronization solution enables automatic sharing of relevant business data across departments and tools. In this article, we describe how the sharing of contract data between the custom web application of the service department and Salesforce allowed for smooth cross-department access and automated usage-based billing.

When developers burn out, platforms catch fire

8 July 2021

As software developers we constantly battle our occupational nemesis, developer burnout. And as we all know when developers burn out, platforms catch fire.

Working in a distributed team

17 June 2021

Djangsters is an extremely distributed team with teammates in four countries on two continents. What sets us apart from others is that we were working remotely before Covid made it mainstream and we’ll be working remotely long after Covid is gone. Remote work is in our DNA and I’d like to take a moment to talk about it.