The past few weeks have been a bit of a struggle.  I've been working on a handful of different features for two of our apps, EZ Importer and EZ Fulfill.  I had 3 features I was planning on building for EZ Importer an…

For the past 5 or so years I've been using Ansible to do all of my deployments.  It's a great tool to do everything from installing your operating system packages and installing postgres to deploying you Django code.  For the majority of projects, I use Jenkins to run my deployment process.  Jenkins is stable, and my co-f…

I recently needed an easy way to bulk upload data to one of my database models from the Django admin.  I didn't want this functionality accessible to users so it didn't make sense to build the CSV file import into the main application.  The only other place on the app where this form could live is the Django admin (at least for now).

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One of the things I've always struggled with is setting aside "downtime" for myself.  Over the last few years I've tried to rectify this by setting aside at least one day a week where I'm not working or thinking about work.  This is typically on Sunday.  Over the last few months I've been able to focus my time on my business, Highview Apps, and my consu…

This past week I ran into an issue where a django management command running on a cron began to hang.   I began to rollback changes to the environment, downgrading python versions, downgrading postgresql versions and even rebuilding the application in another region on Digial Ocean.  None of this seemed to work.  My initial hypothisis was that there was a bug in the managem…