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Becoming an Enterprise Django Developer

By : Michael Dinder
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Becoming an Enterprise Django Developer

By: Michael Dinder

Overview of this book

Django is a powerful framework but choosing the right add-ons that match the scale and scope of your enterprise projects can be tricky. This book will help you explore the multifarious options available for enterprise Django development. Countless organizations are already using Django and more migrating to it, unleashing the power of Python with many different packages and dependencies, including AI technologies. This practical guide will help you understand practices, blueprints, and design decisions to put Django to work the way you want it to. You’ll learn various ways in which data can be rendered onto a page and discover the power of Django for large-scale production applications. Starting with the basics of getting an enterprise project up and running, you'll get to grips with maintaining the project throughout its lifecycle while learning what the Django application lifecycle is. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to build and deploy a Django project to the web and implement various components into the site.
Table of Contents (15 chapters)
1
Part 1 – Starting a Project
5
Part 2 – Django Components
10
Part 3 – Advanced Django Components

Chapter 10: Database Management

In programming, the subject of database management encompasses a broad spectrum of subcategories. Many of those categories were already introduced in earlier chapters, such as in Chapter 2, Project Configuration, when we discussed the concept of using a database management tool, or in Chapter 3, Models, Relations, and Inheritance, when we explored the concept of model managers. While these subjects can be considered topics of this chapter, they were introduced in earlier chapters to better fit what that chapter's subject matter was discussing or to serve as a tool that was suited to the exercises in those earlier chapters. The Django fixtures that were introduced and used in Chapter 3, Models, Relations, and Inheritance, can also be considered a database management tool and will finally be covered in more depth in this chapter.

Django fixtures are used to import and export data found in a database that is connected to a Django project. The chapter_3...