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From the first alert through containment, eradication, forensics, and post-incident review — a structured playbook for handling web app breaches.
SSRF chains, deserialization, prototype pollution, CSPP, race conditions, and the subtle bugs that get past automated scanners. With Django-specific exploitation and defense.
A deep technical tour of the actual surface attackers probe in modern web apps — protocol quirks, header semantics, cookie behaviors, and the bugs they enable.
Who actually attacks web applications, what they're after, and the threat models that matter for SaaS, e-commerce, and B2B platforms in 2026.
Find your breaking point before your users do: designing realistic load scenarios, driving them with Locust or k6, reading the latency percentiles that matter, locating the true bottleneck, and turning results into capacity plans and autoscaling signals.
Escape fat views and fat models with a pragmatic clean architecture for Django: a service layer for business operations, selectors for reads, clear domain/framework boundaries, transactions and validation in the right place, and business logic you can test without a request.
Go beyond CRUD with the Postgres features Django hides: table partitioning, materialized views, window functions, LISTEN/NOTIFY, recursive CTEs, advanced constraints, JSONB/arrays, and safe migrations — with guidance on when to push logic into the database.
Do multilingual Django properly: marking strings, the message-file workflow, pluralization, URL-based language selection, locale-aware formatting, time zones, translating database content (not just the UI), RTL, and running translations across a real team.
Turn the Django admin into a real operations console: powerful change lists, query optimization, bulk actions, inline formsets, autocomplete, custom filters and views, dashboards, object-level permissions — and how to secure and speed up the admin in production.
Turn Django into a spatial framework with GeoDjango and PostGIS: geometry fields, SRIDs, spatial lookups, nearest-neighbor distance queries, importing geographic datasets, GiST indexing, and serving maps — plus the coordinate-system pitfalls to avoid.
Move Django file storage off local disk: django-storages with S3-compatible object storage, private files via signed URLs, direct browser uploads with presigned POST, streaming large files, async image pipelines, and CDN + security pitfalls.
When Postgres full-text search isn't enough: integrating Elasticsearch/OpenSearch with Django — modelling documents, keeping the index in sync, tuning relevance with boosts and fuzziness, facets, and zero-downtime reindexing with aliases.
A production guide to Stripe in Django: the object model, Checkout vs PaymentIntents, subscription lifecycles, why webhooks are the source of truth, idempotency keys, and Strong Customer Authentication — without card data touching your server.
Async Django done right: the ASGI model, async views and the async ORM, safely mixing sync and async with sync_to_async, serving under Uvicorn, and the decision of when concurrency actually pays off.
Stop guessing why your app is slow. Profile a live Django process without restarting it using py-spy, trace per-request queries and timings with django-silk, read flame graphs, and turn findings into concrete fixes.
Move from a slow, brittle test suite to a fast, trustworthy one. Master pytest-django fixtures, generate data with factory_boy, find edge cases automatically with property-based testing, and measure real coverage with mutation testing.
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