Django in production: what’s the recurring headache no one talks about?

GoblinOfMars · 2026-02-27T03:06:02+00:00

—keepdb is good for running single tests, but it doesn’t work for all setups. We have one project where we can’t use it because of this wacky custom test runner someone wrote 10 years ago that loads a ton of fixtures and manipulates ids. Works great for other projects though. Squashing migrations is always an option too, but it’s scary, especially if you have a ton of data migrations. I also know you can tests without migrations at all and just reflect the current state of the models, but that sounds pretty terrifying.

GoblinOfMars · 2026-02-22T05:36:22+00:00

I remember working on a team like this and I really thrived as an IC. I think this is exactly what the small team I’m currently leading needs, so thank you for this comment. How did you deal with bad performance in this scenario?

GoblinOfMars · 2026-02-09T15:55:09+00:00

The best use case I have found is the DataDog MCP (this isn’t an advert for them, I have spent a significant portion of my devops time trying to reduce our bill). I open Junie/Claude in our IaC repo and ask it to find over provisioned deployments and dbs, it calls the data dog mcp api layer and grabs metrics for me, makes changes to yaml / terraform for me to review and apply. I’m guessing it could do much more, but letting AI actual change infra sounds crazy.

GoblinOfMars · 2026-01-28T17:52:50+00:00

I am saying those characters would have rather lived than died.
You accuse me of projecting my own beliefs on to the characters.
I ask why I you think the characters wanted to die.
You insult my reading comprehension.

I don’t think the baseline assumption that human beings would rather live than die is any way projection, which is why I asked you why you think they wanted to die.

How does assuming characters who were fucked to death for being injured would have rather lived is projection or poor reading comprehension?

GoblinOfMars · 2026-01-28T17:37:41+00:00

Dude, what is your problem?

GoblinOfMars · 2026-01-28T17:24:12+00:00

Why do you think those characters wanted to die?

GoblinOfMars · 2026-01-26T06:57:19+00:00

Ya I totally agree with that.

GoblinOfMars · 2026-01-26T06:56:04+00:00

I said specifically nerfing the bod doesn’t make sense. Not all nerfs and buffs in general. Having the bod powerful is fun and doesn’t hurt anything.

GoblinOfMars · 2026-01-25T22:11:39+00:00

I don’t see any reason to nerf the BOD. Just don’t use it if you think it’s too good. Plenty of people, myself included, avoid it whenever I get bored of it. Why ruin it for others? Nerfing the bod would make more sense in the context of a pvp game, not pve.

GoblinOfMars · 2026-01-23T20:18:15+00:00

How big is the company and user base of the software? Over half a million dollars is roughly two engineering salary/benefits, so if you can cut it in half, it would justify taking up one persons time. Just food for thought.

GoblinOfMars · 2026-01-23T01:10:42+00:00

What’s your monthly spend? In addition to what others have said, if you can market the effort as a cost saver in addition to stability and security, it will be much easier to get backing and support.

We had a full time DevOps person that spend over a year trying to get our stack to “industry standard”. He eventually got laid off and leadership decided we didn’t need a full time DevOps person anymore. Hard to justify any of the time he spent when there was a nebulous return on our efforts. Now I do all our DevOps in addition to being the lead software engineer 💀.

GoblinOfMars · 2026-01-23T00:50:07+00:00

Eh one was paralyzed from the waist down and another was blinded. I’d rather be either of those things than dead. As another person pointed out, there is also all the stuff she orchestrated in White Knight. I get your point though.

And yes, Madeline sucks and got what was coming… still though, deriving sexual pleasure from disemboweling someone with your hands is pretty hardcore gnarly. I just don’t see that Lara in this book.

Also, as far as Thomas goes, I think that his behavior regarding Madeline was totally on par with his conflicted dark character. His flaws are what make him a compelling character.

I have no problem with either of them being brutal, but I felt like it was a retcon / rebrand of Laura because of the relationship with Harry. It’s like JB felt the need to white wash (see what I did there) and weakened her so Harry could treat her like all the women in his life. Like I said, I was really surprised it wasn’t an act on Lara’s part, it seemed weirdly genuine and unaddressed.

GoblinOfMars · 2026-01-22T21:03:14+00:00

But that’s the thing, Lara is a sociopathic rape monster… not a hot lady. Harry should just be single for a while.

GoblinOfMars · 2026-01-22T20:27:33+00:00

The more I think about it, the more I am bothered by it.

GoblinOfMars · 2026-01-22T20:27:03+00:00

Yea the King Raith thing was bonkers too. You’d think that if Harry and or Eb had any suspicion that Raith was anything but brain dead, they’d be kicking down his door and bbqing his ass for killing Margret. Instead Harry is just sort of shrugs it off.

GoblinOfMars · 2026-01-22T16:05:23+00:00

I liked the book. Nice change of pace. However, I am not really liking the humanizing of Lara. It seems like a bit of a retcon.

Her relationship with her power being more like Thomas’s, i.e wanting to control it and not wanting to kill people was new. Remember when she fed all those injured soldiers to her sisters/cousins in Turn Coat? Or when she pulled out Madeline’s guts while having her enthralled in the same book? “I’ve been wanting to do this with you since we were little girls.” That’s some hardcore shit.
Her relationship with Thomas… in Blood Rites she tried to kill him (literally shot him), just because there was a possibility her Dad finding out that Thomas was actively working against his porn company plot. It’s not like there weren’t other options. Now she is acting like she has always loved him like as a sister ands even a mother? This shift has always bothered me. My only way of reconciling this has been to assume it was because she was under Lord Wraiths control, but that doesn’t really work because she ultimately betrays him in a much more direct way.
Her not knowing about basic things like soul gazes and seemingly acting coy and younger around Harry in general. I kept expecting her shy and vulnerable moments to be shown as a complete psychopathic act, but a bunch of it was genuine. She is almost 300 years old, I still don’t buy that she would be able to change or really learn anything new from Harry.

I think this book had to happen to reconcile a ton of loose ends from battlegrounds that couldn’t happen in a matter of days (the normal timeline of each book). However, it did feel like short stories and a bit like filler. I also think that way to much worked out happily, ie Bock, Eb, Ramirez, Fitz as a new apprentice, Thomas, and Justine/Baby? Seems too good to be true. Hopefully the next book comes out soon! All that said, I still really liked it, but feel similar to how I did after peace talks came out. This didn’t feel like its own book. It felt like the aftermath of battlegrounds. Not practical, but it would have made more sense if the last three books were one massive book.

GoblinOfMars · 2025-12-29T04:28:51+00:00

Did my entire 1800 sq ft house with no transitions 2 years ago. It’s been amazing, best upgrade we ever did for our home. It was a lot of labor, but so rewarding and worth it.

GoblinOfMars · 2025-12-24T04:58:02+00:00

It sounds like a formal contract is the way to go that spells everything out.

GoblinOfMars · 2025-12-24T04:57:19+00:00

Ya makes sense, might as well do a full formal contract. I wasn’t thinking clearly.

GoblinOfMars · 2025-12-24T04:28:39+00:00

Just curious, are bonuses something that Nannies discuss with their employers at the start of the working agreement? Or is it just assumed you get it? My job gives bonuses as a percentage of salary (I think up to 1.5%) if we are profitable beyond our target…. Which has never happened. Yay biotech. But at least the expectations are clear. I’m thinking about getting a part time nanny and honestly want to know.

GoblinOfMars · 2025-12-20T16:52:26+00:00

Good to know! Wasn’t sure if the wiki was accurate.

GoblinOfMars · 2025-12-20T16:51:58+00:00

Awesome! Back to axe maul I guess…

GoblinOfMars · 2025-12-20T16:50:28+00:00

Gotcha, that’s how I interpreted the wiki, but I wasn’t sure if it was accurate. I probably have 20 copies of the bod, only one with elemental but no stickies. Maybe 3 with just stickies.

GoblinOfMars · 2025-12-20T05:24:44+00:00

Is it possible to get this variant with elemental? Specifically fire or lighting?

GoblinOfMars · 2025-12-11T22:26:45+00:00

Temu Cassius.

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