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Justin Thurman

Justin Thurman

I am a software engineer at Bevy, doing primarily back end work in Django. If you want to learn more about me, check out my portfolio.

Instrumentation and Django's StreamingHttpResponse

Aug 30, 202443 views

In my work at Bevy, I recently implemented a streaming endpoint in our Django app using StreamingHttpResponse. For anyone unfamiliar with this class,...

The HTTP Spec

Jun 12, 202410 views

I just finished Codecrafters.io Build Your Own HTTP Server course (my code, for the curious). This was my first time using Codecrafters, and I really...

How to add context to Celery WorkerLostError logs

Feb 19, 2022341 views

For a while now, we've had semi-frequent WorkerLostErrors on one of our Celery queues. These can happen for a few reasons, but one of the most common...

About CaptureQueriesContext

Jan 18, 2022446 views

If you ever need to access the raw SQL executed during any unit test, the CaptureQueriesContext context manager can help. It's very simple: from...

About the _ Variable in Python

Jan 6, 202219 views

When using Python in an interactive environment (i.e., the shell), the _ variable stores the result of your most recent operation. This is useful if,...

About tree traversal options in Django, and how I evaluate third-party libraries

Nov 28, 202144 views

Background I'm working on a side project for my wife, and the data structure for this project involves models with a recursive foreign key...