Web and App Development Blog

31/03/2026 - Development

Deploy Django with Kamal on your own servers

Your Django application works locally, passes tests, and the team wants to deploy it to production. But between "it works on my machine" and "it runs stably on a server" lies a territory full of decisions that are rarely well explained. Kamal fits right into that in-between space: when manual scripts no longer scale, but Kubernetes is still more than you need.

13/03/2026 - Development

Production security for mid-sized teams: the foundation your project needs before going live

Production security isn't just a list of enabled tools. It's a set of safeguards your team can verify. If you can't explain who has access, what's exposed, and what happens when something goes wrong, your system isn't ready.

27/02/2026 - Development

Without monitoring, your app is running blindly in production.

Deployment is just the beginning. If your app isn't monitored, your users will discover every problem before you do. What you need isn't pretty dashboards or alerts for everything. You need to know what to watch, what to ignore, and when to take action.

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13/02/2026 - Development

Neither zero tests nor full coverage, just the right testing for your project

There are teams that don't test anything and pray before every deployment. And there are teams that aim for 100% coverage and don't deliver on time. Both have a testing problem. The question isn't whether to test, but how much, where, and why.

30/01/2026 - Development

CI/CD for small teams: you don't need Netflix infrastructure

Most CI/CD guides are written for teams of 50 people with a dedicated platform team. But if you're three, five, or ten developers, those guides don't apply. What you need is a working pipeline that can be set up in days (not months) and that your team can maintain without a full-time DevOps engineer.

16/01/2026 - Development

Monolith vs microservices: why your project probably doesn't need the latter

The industry has been saying for years that microservices are the modern architecture and that monolithic systems are a thing of the past. But day-to-day reality tells a different story. Many teams migrate to microservices too soon, solving problems they didn't have before and creating new ones they didn't anticipate. The question isn't which is better. It's which one you need right now.