Apr 10
Building django-rls: From Side Project to Conference Workshop
How a weekend scratch-your-own-itch library became django-rls — and why I'll soon be teaching it to 50 Django developers at DjangoCon Europe Athens.
Kuldeep Pisda
Engineer, Student and Explorer
Apr 09
DISTINCT ON, LATERAL Joins, and FILTER: PostgreSQL Patterns Every Django Dev Needs
A practical cookbook of advanced PostgreSQL query patterns — DISTINCT ON, LATERAL joins, and FILTER clauses — with their Django ORM equivalents and real production examples.
Apr 02
Building Production-Ready AI Voice Agents: Lessons from the Trenches
Practical lessons from building outbound AI voice agents at Avoca — covering prompt architecture, variable-driven templates, latency optimization, and the edge cases that will break your agent in production.
Dec 20
A Pragmatic Django REST Framework Tutorial for Real World APIs
So you've built a killer Django application. The models are tight, the admin is humming, and your server
17 min read
Dec 19
Conversational AI Use Cases: 12 Startup Ready Applications to Boost Growth
The customer support channel in our Slack was on fire. Not in a good way. Every notification was another ticket,
19 min read
Dec 18
Database Backup Strategies for Resilient Data Protection
I remember the night when our small team faced a data wipeout we never saw coming. A single mistyped command
14 min read
Dec 18
Ship Confidently: A No BS Guide on How to Implement Feature Flags
It was 11 PM on a Tuesday. The team was buzzing, ready to ship a massive overhaul of our checkout
14 min read
Dec 17
My Top 12 Picks for the Best Container Orchestration Tools in 2025
Our Django application sailed smoothly through development. But deploying it felt like trying to conduct a chaotic orchestra with a
19 min read
Dec 16
Ship Confidently: A No BS Guide on How to Implement Feature Flags
It was 11 PM on a Tuesday. The team was buzzing, ready to ship a massive overhaul of our checkout
14 min read
Dec 15
Navigating the Labyrinth: A Practical Guide to Distributed Systems Design Patterns
Distributed systems design patterns are the established, reusable solutions to the messy, real world problems you hit when an application
18 min read
Dec 14
Developer Productivity Metrics That Don't Feel Like Surveillance
Ever been asked that dreaded question: "How do we know the engineering team is being productive?" It sends
16 min read
Dec 13
My Top 12 Application Performance Monitoring Tools for Startups in 2025
We have all been there. It is 2 AM, a PagerDuty alert screams, and you are staring at a dashboard
21 min read