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A transparent look at our experience on Product Hunt(reactive.live)
4 points by agconti 3y ago|0 comments
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by agconti 6y ago
Hey HN! Andrew here ( https://www.linkedin.com/in/agconti/ ). I'm the founder of Reactive Streaming, ( https://www.reactive-streaming.com ), a platform as a service that enables product and growth tea
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by agconti 6y ago
As someone who works in Django a lot, their non-standard approach to defining models is wild. ie. Their approach in accounts models.py: https://github.com/saasitive/django-react-boilerplate/blob/m... Over the
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Show HN: Cookiecutter-Django-rest now supports Django 3.0 and Python 3.8(github.com)
5 points by agconti 7y ago|0 comments
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by agconti 8y ago
Django fits this bill.
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by agconti 9y ago
That’s cool and I hear you; that’s a complex relevancy definition. ( Maybe surprisingly? ) This is type of query is natively supported by Postgres. That support is robust and mature, you don’t have to hack it together. ES is a great tool an
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by agconti 9y ago
The Postgres docs suggest using another column. My guess is that an expression index would be too large if it held the tokenized value of all of your FTS documents. These things can and often are entire written documents. Imagine the index
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by agconti 9y ago
I'd argue that relevancy is more your application application's design then the underlying system retrieving the results. For example, putting the same dataset in Postgres or ES wouldn't make one deliver more relevant results
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by agconti 9y ago
Absolutely. - Using a `SearchVectorField` is a must after 500K rows. - Make keeping this field up to date easy for yourself by populating it using `SeachVector` with a Django pre_save signal or PostgreSQL trigger. This reduces CPU utilizati
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by agconti 9y ago
I can deeply vouch for the performance and joy of implementing Full-Text Search with PostgreSQL and Django. I just finished a a project where we chose Postgres's FTS over using Elastic Search. At the beginning, I was worried about wha
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by agconti 9y ago
My open source project: building best practiced apis fast with Python3 https://github.com/agconti/cookiecutter-django-rest
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by agconti 9y ago
Hey sheraz — thanks for the feedback! Your recommendations look great, especially libclould. What do you think can be beefed up in getting started docs? Getting setup on your laptop should be as simple as cookiecutting your app and running
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by agconti 9y ago
Hey ya’ll, I’m the creator of cookiecutter-django-rest. I’m super happy to share this release with you. This is a big one. What api frameworks do you use? What kind of enhancements are you looking for?
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Show HN: Build modern apis with Python3, Docker, and Django 2.0(github.com)
3 points by agconti 9y ago|4 comments
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by agconti 9y ago
cookiecutter-django-rest now supports Django 1.11+! cookiecutter-django-rest takes care of the details so you can focus on making your api awesome. Scaffolding a project takes seconds and gives you a solid foundation by baking in Django&#x2
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Show HN: Build heroic rest apis on a deadline with Django 1.11(github.com)
3 points by agconti 9y ago|1 comments
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by agconti 10y ago
is that you Mark Watney?
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by agconti 10y ago
> no one can sleep away your exhaustion for you. This is a really eloquent reminder.
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by agconti 10y ago
The sites down, here's the cached version: http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:5fXNOBY...
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by agconti 10y ago
From the Tao of programming, 1.2: The Tao gave birth to machine language. Machine language gave birth to the assembler. The assembler gave birth to the compiler. Now there are ten thousand languages. Each language has its purpose, however h
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GIPHY serves more than 1B GIFs per day(medium.com)
3 points by agconti 10y ago|0 comments
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by agconti 10y ago
Mike Bostock's talk on visualizing algorithms is one of my favorites: https://vimeo.com/112319901 > Visualizing Algorithms – A look at the use of visualization and animation to understand, explain and debug algorith
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by agconti 10y ago
Startups as investments are very risky with long payoff horizons. With their limited funds, this is a poor investment for the average investor. I can't help but feel like this will hurt more people then it will help.
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by agconti 10y ago
Evaluating a framework by the number of files its dependencies are broken into is a a pretty poor measure of quality.
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by agconti 10y ago
Its really awesome that this project continues to endure. The code base is top notch and the maintainers are committed to the highest level of quality. DRF is one of the core reasons why Django is top choice among web frameworks today. In m
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by agconti 11y ago
This lib will only work on the latest browsers. The source leverages calc for simple width percentages, so on android browser below 47 these values won't calculate at all: http://caniuse.com/#feat=calc . > Partial su
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by agconti 11y ago
cookiecutter-django-rest takes care of the setup and configuration so you can focus on making your api awesome. Scaffolding a project takes seconds and it gives you authentication, user accounts, and the docs and tests to support them. Afte
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Show HN: Make robust rest apis fast and easy with cookiecutter-django-rest(github.com)
3 points by agconti 11y ago|1 comments
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Cookiecutter-django-rest: for creating REST apis for mobile and web applications(github.com)
3 points by agconti 11y ago|0 comments
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by agconti 11y ago
> Like, not having a decent REST abstraction The community has stepped in here. Django Rest-framework provides one of the best approaches for creating restful apis that any web framework has to offer. For me, using Django is inseparable

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