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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

Summary

In this chapter, we learned that models are building blocks of everything else we build that accesses data in a database. They provide the containers where all of a project's data will exist as a data storage device for this application. We now have a toolbox with tools related to the structure of the tables, such as the columns that exist or rules/constraints that we apply to them. Other tools help us to link these tables together that build the relationships between those tables. We also know how to transform the data that we have to provide other data not kept in those tables, but rather derived from it. Some of the concepts add performance power by doing work in the background, indexing data, and reducing the time that it takes to look up information. Querying objects is also a complex subject and there is a lot of material regarding it; use the concepts in this chapter to help guide you through researching more advanced ways of querying data, to help with complex...