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Security Advanced
Web Application Incident Response — Investigating an Active Compromise

From the first alert through containment, eradication, forensics, and post-incident review — a structured playbook for handling web app breaches.

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Security Advanced
Beyond OWASP Top 10 — Advanced Web App Vulnerabilities and Chains

SSRF chains, deserialization, prototype pollution, CSPP, race conditions, and the subtle bugs that get past automated scanners. With Django-specific exploitation and defense.

15 min read | 6 views
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Security Advanced
The Web Application Attack Surface — HTTP, TLS, Cookies, Headers, and Where They Break

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.

14 min read | 5 views
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Security Advanced
The Web Application Threat Landscape — Real Attackers, Real Targets, Real Money

Who actually attacks web applications, what they're after, and the threat models that matter for SaaS, e-commerce, and B2B platforms in 2026.

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AI & LLMs Advanced
Streaming AI Responses with Django and Server-Sent Events

Streaming makes AI features feel responsive instead of frozen. Here's the full pipeline — async views, SSE, JavaScript client, and the nginx tweaks that matter.

12 min · 9
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AI & LLMs Intermediate
Prompt Engineering Patterns for Production Django Apps

System prompts that scale, structured output, few-shot examples, guardrails, and the patterns that hold up when real users push your AI features.

11 min · 9
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AI & LLMs Intermediate
Choosing a Vector Database — pgvector vs Pinecone vs Weaviate vs Qdrant

When your existing Postgres is enough, when to graduate to a dedicated vector DB, and how the major options compare for Django apps.

8 min · 8
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AI & LLMs Advanced
Building a RAG System in Django with PostgreSQL and pgvector

Embed documents, store vectors in Postgres, and let an LLM answer questions about your own data — without hallucinating its sources.

15 min · 9
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AI & LLMs Intermediate
Calling the Claude API from Django — Setup, Streaming, Error Handling

From pip install to a streaming chat view in production. Authentication, error handling, prompt caching, and cost-aware patterns for Django + Claude.

12 min · 16
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AI & LLMs Intermediate
Reasoning in LLMs — Chain of Thought, Extended Thinking, and When to Use Them

Reasoning models think before answering. Here's how chain-of-thought prompting works, what Anthropic's extended thinking does differently, and when the extra cost is worth it.

9 min · 8
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AI & LLMs Beginner
How Large Language Models Actually Work (Without the Math)

Tokens, transformers, context windows, why LLMs hallucinate, and how to choose between Claude, GPT, and open-source models — explained in plain English.

10 min · 8
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AI & LLMs Beginner
Understanding AI for Django Developers — A Practical Primer

What AI, machine learning, and LLMs actually are, when to use them in your Django app, and a decision framework for picking the right tool.

8 min · 15
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Python Advanced
RPA with Python and Playwright: Browser Automation, Async Workflows, and Scheduling from Django

Build production RPA bots in Python: log into vendor portals, scrape dashboards, fill forms, and persist sessions — orchestrated from Django via Celery. The modern, license-free alternative to UiPath and Automation Anywhere.

20 min · 68
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JavaScript Advanced
HTMX with Django: Server-Rendered Interactivity Without React or Vue

HTMX brings SPA-feel interactions back to server-rendered Django: inline forms, live validation, infinite scroll, modals, and partial updates — all from regular Django views returning HTML fragments. The full pattern with CSRF and SSE.

20 min · 70
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DevOps Advanced
Kubernetes for Django: Deployments, HPA, Ingress, ConfigMaps, Secrets, and PgBouncer

A pragmatic Kubernetes setup for a real Django app: Deployment + Service + Ingress, ConfigMaps and Secrets done right, liveness/readiness probes that work, HPA on the right metric, and PgBouncer in front of PostgreSQL.

20 min · 61
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DevOps Advanced
Observability for Django: Sentry, Structured Logging, Prometheus, and OpenTelemetry Tracing

Three pillars — logs, metrics, traces — wired into a real Django app. Sentry for errors, structlog for context, django-prometheus for golden signals, OpenTelemetry for distributed traces. The minimum to debug prod without ssh-ing in.

20 min · 56
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