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Django Design Patterns and Best Practices

You're reading from   Django Design Patterns and Best Practices Easily build maintainable websites with powerful and relevant Django design patterns

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Product type Paperback
Published in Mar 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783986644
Length 222 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Arun Ravindran Arun Ravindran
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Preface 1. Django and Patterns 2. Application Design FREE CHAPTER 3. Models 4. Views and URLs 5. Templates 6. Admin Interface 7. Forms 8. Dealing with Legacy Code 9. Testing and Debugging 10. Security 11. Production-ready A. Python 2 versus Python 3 Index

Hosting

When it comes to hosting, you need to make sure whether to go for a hosting platform such as Heroku or not. If you do not know much about managing a server or do not have anyone with that knowledge in your team, then a hosting platform is a convenient option.

Platform as a service

A Platform as a Service (PaaS) is defined as a cloud service where the solution stack is already provided and managed for you. Popular platforms for Django hosting include Heroku, PythonAnywhere, and Google App Engine.

In most cases, deploying a Django application should be as simple as selecting the services or components of your stack and pushing out your source code. You do not have to perform any system administration or setup yourself. The platform is entirely managed.

Like most cloud services, the infrastructure can also scale on demand. If you need an additional database server or more RAM on a server, it can be easily provisioned from a web interface or the command line. The pricing is primarily based...

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