Django

Django, often regarded as to having the batteries included, is a robust app framework that helps developers create and build. This site is built using Django. Here are some thoughts and learnings...

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  GCP Architecture: www.luispal.com

  This is a high-level overview of the architecture concerning my Django app. I go over the different components involved in deploying this app to production. Lots of room for improvement, but it is shipped.

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  Django's Guide to the Galaxy | DJ Checkup | TRACE HTTP

  In this post, I show what I learned to keep away unsavory HTTP methods.

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  Django's Guide to the Galaxy | DJ Checkup | X-Frame-Options

  Yet another security enhancement to make sure the site is safe. This time from clickjacking.

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  Django's Guide to the Galaxy | DJ Checkup | CSRF

  Shedding some light on the CSRF check. This quote suits this article: "The CSRF cookie is used to prevent Cross Site Request Forgeries and is required to protect pages on your site that use unsafe methods, i.e. POST, PUT, and DELETE." -DJ Ceckup

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  Django's Guide to the Galaxy | DJ Checkup | User Login + HTTPS

  This article is short and drives home the point of why the user login must be accessible strictly by https.

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  Django's Guide to the Galaxy | DJ checkup | HSTS

  There are a few different ways to configure https strict transport security (HSTS) that I have learned. I share them here in this post.

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  Django's Guide to the Galaxy | DJ Checkup | Disable DEBUG

  Another measure to make sure you app is secure when running in production.

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  Django's Guide to the Galaxy | DJ Checkup | HTTPS

  There are different ways to enable https for one's site. Here I go over some possibilities and point in the direction of how this would be done.

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  Django's Guide to the Galaxy | DJ CHeckup | Harden Admin

  When one has a Django admin site the first things that should be done is to harden the admin url. This is a straightforward task to beef up your security and reduce your attack surface.

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  Django's Guide to the Galaxy | DJ Checkup

  I am learning a lot building my personal site...I take this opportunity to talk about DJ Checkup and how it is helpful when moving to production.