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2026

April in Review: 30 Days of Daily Blogging as a Solo Founder Apr 30

MCP Servers for the Rest of Us: Building a Ghost Admin API Integration Apr 29

Cross-Border Income for Indian Developers: FEMA, LRS, and Entity Structuring Apr 27

Building django-rls: From Side Project to Conference Workshop Apr 10

DISTINCT ON, LATERAL Joins, and FILTER: PostgreSQL Patterns Every Django Dev Needs Apr 9

Building Production-Ready AI Voice Agents: Lessons from the Trenches Apr 2

2025

A Pragmatic Django REST Framework Tutorial for Real World APIs Dec 20

Conversational AI Use Cases: 12 Startup Ready Applications to Boost Growth Dec 19

Database Backup Strategies for Resilient Data Protection Dec 18

Ship Confidently: A No BS Guide on How to Implement Feature Flags Dec 18

My Top 12 Picks for the Best Container Orchestration Tools in 2025 Dec 17

Ship Confidently: A No BS Guide on How to Implement Feature Flags Dec 16

Navigating the Labyrinth: A Practical Guide to Distributed Systems Design Patterns Dec 15

Developer Productivity Metrics That Don't Feel Like Surveillance Dec 14

My Top 12 Application Performance Monitoring Tools for Startups in 2025 Dec 13

My Top 12 Picks For The Best Secrets Management Tools In 2025 Dec 12

10 Penetration Testing Best Practices Your Startup Can't Ignore in 2025 Dec 11

10 Data Encryption Best Practices Your Startup Can't Ignore in 2025 Dec 10

Stop Asking "Who Can Do What?" Start Asking "What Can This Role Do?" - A Guide to Role Based Access Control Implementation Dec 9

10 Pragmatic Best Practices for REST API Design That Actually Work Dec 8

10 Real World Event Driven Architecture Examples That Actually Work Dec 7

Event Driven Architecture Patterns: Your Guide to Building Scalable Apps That Don't Break Dec 6

A Guide to Product Development Lifecycle Stages Dec 5

10 Sprint Planning Best Practices That Will Save Your Startup's Sanity Dec 4

10 Continuous Integration Best Practices That Won't Make You Cry Dec 3

Test Automation Best Practices That Won't Make You Want to Flip Your Desk Dec 2

A Technical Specification Template That Actually Prevents Disasters Dec 1

Disaster Recovery Planning Checklist: The Guide I Wish I Had Years Ago Nov 30

12 Essential Application Security Testing Tools for 2025 Nov 29

8 Practical Test Driven Development Examples for Real World Code Nov 28

Your Software Architecture Documentation Is Lying to You Nov 27

High Availability Architecture That Actually Works Nov 26

A Startup Tech Consultant Might Be The Best Money You Ever Spend Nov 25

What Do Product Engineering Consultants Actually Do? (And When Do You Call One?) Nov 24

10 Code Review Best Practices That Actually Work in 2025 Nov 23

A Technical Roadmap Template That Actually Works Nov 22

From Zero to Scalable APIs in Django — A Full-Day Hands-On Workshop in Bengaluru Nov 21

Fractional CTO Services Your Tech Scaling Playbook Nov 21

Cracking the Code: Your Humane Guide to System Design Interview Preparation Nov 20

A Guide to REST API Design Principles Nov 1

A Guide to Humane Django Model Forms Oct 31

Why Your Django App Will Eventually Thank You for Using PostgreSQL Oct 30

A Guide to Django REST Framework Authentication That Won't Put You to Sleep Oct 29

How to Create a Django Application That Doesn't Fall Apart Oct 28

Django Website Hosting Made Simple Oct 27

7 Top Tier Django Web Hosting Platforms for 2025 Oct 26

12 Best Django Web Hosts For Your Next Project in 2025 Oct 25

Hosting for Django: My Quest for the Perfect Launchpad Oct 24

So You've Built a Django App. Now What? A Guide to Django Web Hosts in 2025 Oct 23

12 Best Python Frameworks for Web Development in 2025 Oct 22

DjangoDay India 2025: A Dream Finally Taking Shape 🇮🇳 Oct 21

A Guide to App Development with Python Oct 21

PHP vs Python Which Side of the Fence Should You Be On Oct 20

A Guide to Predictive Analysis Machine Learning (Without the Headaches) Oct 19

10 Powerful Artificial Intelligence Ideas Ready for 2025 Oct 18

So You Want to Build a Fintech App? Let's Talk About What's Really at Stake Oct 17

Your Tech Stack Feels Like It’s Held Together With Duct Tape? Let’s Talk Technical Consulting Oct 16

Your Essential Product Launch Checklist Template Oct 15

A Guide to Startup MVP Development Services Oct 14

Your Guide to Next.js Development Services for Real Business Growth Oct 13

Mastering the Many to Many Relationship Oct 12

A Guide to Engineering Productivity Measurement Oct 11

How to Choose a Technology Stack Without Losing Your Mind Oct 10

A Guide to a Realistic Software Project Estimate Oct 9

Software Development Cost Estimation Doesn't Have to Be a Lie Oct 8

Technical Due Diligence Checklist: The Terrifying Skeletons Hiding in Your Next Acquisition Oct 7

8 Unmissable API Documentation Best Practices for 2025 Oct 6

Top 9 Microservices Architecture Best Practices for 2025 Oct 5

Retrieval Augmented Generation The Secret Sauce For Smarter AI Oct 4

Your Guide to Testing Software Requirements Before You Write a Single Line of Code Oct 3

What Is Test Driven Development? A Guide to Saner Coding Oct 2

Starting a Django Project Without the Headaches Oct 1

Mastering the Django Model Form Sep 30

The Great Encryption Heist: Symmetric vs Asymmetric Keys Explained Through Hollywood Magic Aug 26

What are JWTs and how secure are they? Aug 25

Docker Setup Guide: A Hollywood Blockbuster Edition Jul 23

How to store passwords securely in the Database? Jul 13

Secret Messages: Understanding Encryption vs. Hashing Through a 90s Love Story Mar 27

The Day the Internet Broke: How Microsoft’s Quantum Leap Could Reshape Digital Privacy (And Why Silicon Valley’s Fictional Nightmare Is Closer Than You Think) Feb 22

Join Kuldeep Pisda at PyConf Hyderabad 2025 for a hands-on workshop on mastering Test-Driven Development in Django using factory_boy and faker Feb 17

2024

Announcing Kuldeep Pisda's DjangoCon US 2024 Tutorial: Efficient Django – Mastering Asynchronous Tasks with Celery, RabbitMQ, and Redis Aug 1

2023

Mastering Generic Foreign Keys: Flexible References in Django Sep 12

How to structure the Django Project? Sep 7

Announcing Kuldeep Pisda's DjangoCon US 2023 Tutorial: Mastering Test-Driven Development in Django with factory_boy and faker Jul 20

How to customize REST API responses per user in Django? Feb 11

How to make REST APIs in Django using Django-rest-framework? Jan 20

2022

What is a REST API? Nov 16

Announcing Kuldeep Pisda's DjangoCon US 2022 Tutorial: Mastering Django REST APIs and Admin Panel Customization Aug 16

2020

How to validate the raw JSON post request body in Django? Sep 11

2018

Things to know before starting a startup Dec 27

How to make fail-safe APIs in Django May 12

Get rid of typing username and password in git CLI Apr 25

How to implement Google login in website Mar 30

What is an API (Web Development) Mar 8

Getting started with web development (Part 1) Feb 27

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