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Django Design Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from   Django Design Patterns and Best Practices Industry-standard web development techniques and solutions using Python

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Product type Paperback
Published in May 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788831345
Length 282 pages
Edition 2nd Edition
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Arun Ravindran Arun Ravindran
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Table of Contents (16) Chapters Close

Preface 1. Django and Patterns 2. Application Design FREE CHAPTER 3. Models 4. Views and URLs 5. Templates 6. Admin Interface 7. Forms 8. Working Asynchronously 9. Creating APIs 10. Dealing with Legacy Code 11. Testing and Debugging 12. Security 13. Production-Ready 14. Python 2 Versus Python 3 15. Other Books You May Enjoy

Models

In this chapter, we will discuss the following topics:

  • The importance of models
  • Class diagrams
  • Model structural patterns
  • Model behavioral patterns
  • Migrations

I was once consulted by a data analytics start-up in their early stages. Despite data retrieval being limited to a window of recent data, they had performance issues with page load sometimes taking several seconds. After analyzing their architecture, the problem seemed to be in their data model. However, migrating and transforming petabytes of structured live data seemed impossible.

"Show me your flowcharts and conceal your tables, and I shall continue to be mystified. Show me your tables, and I won't usually need your flowcharts; they'll be obvious."
— Fred Brooks, The Mythical Man-month

Traditionally, designing code around well thought-out data is always recommended...

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