Ajit Kumar articles - 30 total
Taming the Internal Loop: Why Your Next.js App is DDoSing Itself (and How to Fix It)
As system designers, we constantly chase efficiency, cost savings, and bulletproof security....
Building a Daily Python Lesson Telegram Bot with Supabase and React
Introduction Imagine a web application that sends users a short Python lesson every day through...
Blocking Web Scrapers with Fail2Ban + Nginx (Production Guide)
Web scraping and aggressive crawling can quietly drain your infrastructure budget, increase server...
Blocking Web Scrapers and Crawlers Using Nginx (Without Cloudflare or AWS WAF)
Web scraping and aggressive crawling can quietly inflate your infrastructure costs—especially when...
Deploying a complex Django application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk (EB)
Deploying a complex Django application to AWS Elastic Beanstalk (EB) provides a scalable, managed...
Visualize Your System Logs: Web-based dashboard
There are several tools that provide web-based dashboards showing disk usage, memory (RAM) usage,...
Nginx Log Analytics with GoAccess: Local Logs, S3 Backups, and Beyond
Collecting logs is only half the job. The real value comes from turning logs into insights. If you...
Backing Up Nginx Logs the Right Way: From Basics to Automation
When you run a website or API on a server, logs are your first and last line of truth. Whether you...
Building Your First Agentic AI: Complete Guide to MCP + Ollama Tool Calling
Learn how to build AI agents that can use tools, make decisions, and take actions - all running...
Making Pytest Beautiful: A Complete Guide to Improving Test Output (with Plugins & Examples)
Pytest is already one of the best testing frameworks in Python—but its default output is plain, and...
Django + DRF Practical Testing: Blog, Writer, Category, SocialMediaMeta (Full Use Case) - Part 2
In Part 1, we configured pytest, created a test database, and set up fixtures. Now we focus on real...
Introducing Automated Testing Late in a Django + DRF Project: Setup, Requirements, and Best Practices - Part-1
Many Django REST Framework projects begin with rapid feature development and no automated test suite....
A Rough day with Ruff --fix in Django's apps
This blog post is a note on , Why Ruff (the linter) is trying to revert: def ready(self): ...
Fixing Social Preview Images: Understanding Meta Tags, Correct Paths, and Cache Busting
If you’ve ever updated your site’s og:image or twitter:image meta tags and wondered why Twitter,...
Refactoring a Mature Airflow Project: A Practical Guide to Scaling from Solo Development to Team Collaboration
Running Apache Airflow for a year with ~10 DAGs is enough time to learn what hurts: inconsistent...
Chasing the NVIDIA Ghost: A Linux Desktop GPU Odyssey
Sometimes, fixing a GPU on Linux feels less like tech work and more like a mystical quest. That was...
How I Escaped the Commit-Hook Loop in My Django Project
As developers, we all want clean, consistent code. Tools like pre-commit make this possible by...
Dynamic Log file for each spiders: Scrapy Logging
To dynamically assign a log file without modifying the settings directly, you need to set up logging...
Understanding Django's Model in Depth: From Beginner to Production Level
🌱 Django ORM Save Flow This shows what happens when a Django model instance is saved:
Zero-Effort ER Diagrams in Django: Auto-Generate Directly From Your Models
When a Django project starts small, model relationships are easy to understand. But as the project...
Django Deployment : Serving Static files with Nginx and Gunicorn
All the Django Deployment (web or rest frameworks) needs to have a setup for serving static files and...
Note: SSH to EC2 without specifying .pem
To avoid specifying the .pem file every time you connect to an EC2 instance, you can configure your...
Transfer, Copy, or Mirror: Playing with Ownership of Github Repo: ChatGPT notes
Migrating a GitHub repository to a new account can be done through several approaches depending on...
Handling Untracked files Gracefully in Git : ChatGPT Output
Untracked files in Git are files that are not part of version control—they exist in your working...
Day 1 : Daily Notes for #30DayOfFLCode
Day 1 Last summer, I changed my learning journey from academic research to developer....
Scrape but Validate: Data scraping with Pydantic Validation
Note: Not an output of chatGPT/ LLM Data scraping is process of collecting data from public web...
Dumping JSON data to Django Models: Using Django Setup and Commands
The need of data become most important when you complete your first version of website using Django...
Automate Spider Creation in Scrapy with Jinja2 and JSON
Today, I am going to share about my web scarping automation that i have been working recently which...
String and Trailing comma, get couple and become, Tuple (): A copy & paste mistake to Error and concept
Today, I am going to tell a story about my copy & paste mistake and how a string with trailing...
Using Python to Dump Data into Django Models for Testing Frontend or API Endpoints:A Complete Django REST API Tutorial
As a developer working on APIs or front-end applications, you need data in your database to test API...