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Lab integration in specialty care: choosing the right strategy for your product

Lab APIs and HIEs solve different problems. Learn when each approach makes sense for specialty care products and how teams avoid costly integration mistakes.

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Managing type safety challenges using the FastAPI + Next.js template

Learn how to solve full-stack type safety challenges with FastAPI + Next.js. Eliminate integration bugs, automate client generation, and build scalable applications with proven architecture patterns.

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Connecting Medplum with Metriport: healthcare API integration

Learn to build bi-directional Medplum-Metriport integration using two-bot architecture. Complete guide with webhooks, FHIR processing, and security.

Drops6 min read

Next.js FastAPI Template: how to build and deploy scalable apps

Launch scalable web applications faster with our Next.js FastAPI Template. Featuring full async support, end-to-end type safety, and easy Vercel deployment, this template provides everything you need for MVPs and production projects.

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Re-using a file in multiple serializers in the same request

A practical guide to managing file uploads across multiple serializers in Django REST Framework, preventing closed file errors during model creation.

Drops2 min read

Generating API clients in monorepos with FastAPI & Next.js

Eliminate manual API client updates in your monorepo: a guide to seamless, type-safe integration between FastAPI, Next.js, and @hey-api/openapi-ts.

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FHIR, US Core, and Medplum: navigating healthcare interoperability

Explore how Medplum simplifies healthcare interoperability for developers.

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Enhancing GraphQL in Django: new annotation feature in strawberry-django

Discover the new annotation feature in strawberry-django that enhances GraphQL capabilities, optimizes API performance and simplifies complex data transformations.

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Vinta Talks: maximizing Django with Celery

In partnership with Django Boston, Vinta promoted a workshop on how to boost Django projects with Celery. Learn more and scale your web applications using Celery.

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Two Django Talks: secrets to reliable Celery integration + strategies for API development

In collaboration with Boston Python, we hosted two Django Talks. Topics included API Client Generation with DRF-Spectacular and Reliable Async Tasks with Celery. Connect and learn from our experiences.

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Basic SEO in Django: essential practices to boost your visibility

Learn practical strategies to implement SEO in Django apps — from meta tags to sitemaps — and boost your project's visibility in search engines.

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How to use Django REST Framework serializers effectively

Explore the power of Django REST Framework (DRF) serializers in crafting robust APIs. Unlock insights and discover the game-changing drf-rw-serializers tool.

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Offshore Development Center: types, benefits & how to choose

An offshore development center is the future of the IT market. Its cost-efficiency and high-quality work can be the solution your company is looking for.

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Staff augmentation for software development: driving business success

Discover how staff augmentation helps CTOs and CEOs scale software teams efficiently, integrate specialized talent, and accelerate development without losing control.

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Why we use Django & what it's used for

In this post, we've gathered all you need to know about Django to show you why this is the perfect framework for your project.

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Vinta at DjangoCon US 2022: highlights and takeaways

It is DjangoCon time! As avid participants, we are super excited for this year's edition of DjangoCon US. We've been participating in the event since 2017 and sponsoring it since 2018. This community built around the framework we love has a special place in our hearts, and we are excited to be able to sponsor the event again this year.

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Software Development: 8 steps to better feature development process

Check this step-by-step guide to help you make better features and reduce time in your software development project.

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Indexing Ethereum data efficiently with The Graph

Being able to consume relevant and concise data is essential to virtually any web application, the same applies to decentralized applications (or dApps), which are built on top of the blockchain, using it as the primary source of information. However, as opposed to typical...

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Testing the diff

Good unit tests laser focus on the smallest possible scope and are crafted to isolate the functionality from as much external interference as possible. The way to do this is to write tests that self ensure they are testing what we expect them to be testing. Let's see...

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🇧🇷 FrontJS #8

O FrontJS é um encontro trimestral para discutir tecnologias, frameworks e metodologias relacionadas ao desenvolvimento de aplicações front-end com JavaScript.

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🇧🇷 FrontJS #7

O FrontJS é um encontro trimestral para discutir tecnologias, frameworks e metodologias relacionadas ao desenvolvimento de aplicações front-end com JavaScript.

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🇧🇷 FrontJS #6: integração front-end ↔ back-end

O FrontJS é um encontro semestral para discutir tecnologias, frameworks e metodologias relacionadas ao desenvolvimento de aplicações front-end com JavaScript. Alguns do tópicos que abordamos são: React, Angular.js, Vue.js, Flux e Ember.

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How to analyze A/B test results Udacity methodology: from hypothesis to implementation

Learn how to run and analyze A/B tests with real product examples and checklist-backed insights. Ideal for anyone taking or reviewing Udacity’s A/B Testing course.

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Django count queries with assertNumQueries: performance testing best practices

Learn how to test the number of database queries in Django using assertNumQueries. Avoid hidden performance issues by writing realistic and scalable unit tests.

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Contributing to Django framework: it's easier than you think

For those who are starting to code and wish to make open source, sometimes it is hard to start. The idea of contributing with that fancy and wonderful lib that you love can sound a little bit scary. Lucky for us many of those libs have room for whoever is willing to start.

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Django-React Boilerplate: streamline your development

Here at Vinta we believe that programmers, not processes, nor code, are the most important assets on software engineering. Due to that, we believe in using every tool available in order to facilitate our programmers' lives.

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Python API clients with Tapioca: simplify integrations

Integrating with external services is painful. At Vinta, we build and deal with both public and private APIs on the daily basis. Having worked in many of those projects I can safely tell that we are currently in hell when it comes to integrations.

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Understanding database multitenancy

The term "software multitenancy" refers to a software architecture in which a single instance of software runs on a server and serves multiple tenants.

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5 tools to help develop and test APIs

Here are some very useful tools that can assist you while developing, debugging and testing web APIs.

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Seriously, we can build better web API clients

We are in the era of Software as a Service and microservices. From the techinical point of view this means we are writting more web APIs than we use to. This also means we need to build clients to free our souls from dealing with bare HTTP. This doesn't mean we should separate this much from HTTP

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3 awesome Git commands to help you debug faster

Git is a great tool but since you only need to know a small subset of commands to use it, people end up not knowing a bunch of awesome features of it. Some of my favourites are blame, bisect and rebase.

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Uploading files from the frontend to Amazon S3

A common problem appears when uploading large files to Heroku. Every request made to Heroku must last less than 30 seconds or it will get terminated, when uploading large files, 30 seconds might not be enough. Here is how to circumvent that with Amazon S3

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Classy Django REST Framework

Classy Django REST Framework, a web-based documentation with flattened information about Django REST Framework's class-based views and serializers. It is heavily based on Classy Class-based View and users familiar with it will feel right at home.

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Configuring Sass & Bower with django-compressor – Part 1

This is a quick guide on how to configure a Django 1.8 project with Sass (django-libsass), Bower (django-bower) and django-compressor (which combine static files and minificate them).

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Django CORS: handling cross-origin requests

It’s common among web developers, and mainly the ones who are developing web APIs, to face problems related to CORS. Wanna know how to use CORS in Django and understand better how it works under the hood? Don't worry. We will explain.

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