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Just a few observations:

- Async... The Django way of doing things... Celery -> it's a background task system which is like bringing a bazooka to kill a fly for what you wanted to do (I assume proxying the request to an external API).

- database I/O and calling external services -> Use gunicorn gevent worker type that brings up the pseudo threads.

- JWT was poorly supported -> There's at least 5 battle tested libraries that you can use to implement JWT alone (simplejwt comes to mind first)

- the most popular auth library needed quite a bit of manual patching in code to make it all work -> Which one? There's few that are standard and most are easy to customize via global settings.

- Raw deployment on PaaS like Heroku and Elastic Beanstalk -> that's more on the platform rather than Django itself

- DRF -> I agree, DRF has it's own way of doing things and deviating from them can give you massive headaches.

You're right, my bad! Regarding continuous protection that works flawlessly as it has saved us 2-3 times already!

We have a:

- ~500gb one fails to backup

- ~1tb one fails to backup

- ~100gb one succesfuly backups

The link where I got that number is here - https://devcenter.heroku.com/articles/heroku-postgres-backup...

We do - the monthly bill was about 30k when I joined and I was able to drop it down to 15k in a month by refactoring the majority of the infra (mainly backend workers). DB is the biggest limiting factor - pricing is absolute rubbish. You can't have backups after your data size goes above 20gb. Replicas have to be on the same tier, as otherwise lag occurs daily. Connection limits are awful, but luckily you can setup a pooler in front of the DB. Also, we had workers being stuck in a limbo state, where they aren't crashed, but they aren't working either - but this mainly happens with Celery workers, to be fair. Some add-ons are also cheaper directly on their respective website, rather than through heroku.

If someone was to use heroku I'd advise to at minimum:

- move the DB elsewhere.

- not setup external services through heroku auth (sentry, logtail, newrelic etc)

With all of that said - I do have my startup and some pet projects there as it does in fact abstract the devops aspect away.

Does anyone have experience with countryside in Italy (Tuscany specifically) or Spain? I'd love to move there in a few years and start producing wine on a smaller scale.

I assume this should be renamed to Django Views Cheatsheets instead of Dango Views Cheatsheets?

Never since that’ll mean they’ll have to support the users in some way.

What are some reliable alternatives for both iOS and Android? I'm unsure how are Apple Maps, but they were hideous a while back for Eastern Europe at least.

1) Absolutely - I have been working for the US companies as an FTE (remotely, but C2C, essentially a contractor), and sometimes the hours do make an issue. It's a 9 hour difference with the West Coast for me, but Central / Eastern works well, if the expectations are properly set.

2) Spot on - Agile does not work well in such environment, I have seen it first hand twice. I feel that with senior/staff level devs, you can expect and should get higher level of autonomy and less hand-holding, so in a solid project oriented company, I do feel that fewer "business hours overlap" would impact much. I do feel that at least 3, preferably more hours should be reserved for meetings / overlap.

3) I'd argue about that one, haha. I have been on-call troubleshooting production at 2-3am my time, not once, but multiple times. For a great employer, with proper compensation and benefits, you'd be surprised what devs from this area would do!

4) YES! Companies are greedy. However, they do have to pay pension/insurance on the hourly rate they give to the dev, think 50-60%, but they don't want to give away their cut at all, it seems to be non-negotiable flat fee, which is deal breaking. Another point is that Microsoft and other big brand outsourcing names are coming to EE and stealing away the workforce.

Disclaimer - I work as a senior/staff level dev with high base salary and equity, so my experience may be a bit skewed.

Absolutely - every experience matters. In Southeastern Europe - you get what you pay for. We would definitely not try to hire anyone with less than 5 years of experience, thoroughly vetted before even talking to the US companies and/or submitting a resume.

True, it's a hard niche to fill, and yup, slightly confusing even. We'd aim for development companies within the US that have some "outsourcing" presence around the world, but have not tapped into Eastern Europe yet. What we're really looking to do is help developers get connected to the US companies and get paid better and not be looked at as contractors, but FTE with benefits.

An example - in Serbia and Slovenia you arrange a net salary, and the company pays the taxes/insurance etc on top of net salary (usually around 50-60%). So for a senior salary in Serbia of around 4k euros. you're looking at the company paying around 6-7k euros. For a contractor (as a sole proprietor) you can make at most 50k euros a year and then you pay benefits that are minimum 300e. If you go above that you pay 10% tax on profit + 15% personal income tax. You can choose to still pay yourself salary and 50-60% on top of that, and you will most likely not pay yourself a big salary, but take the profit and pay the 15%.

What we would try to accomplish is:

- Not have developer as a contractor, but as an FTE

- Create a pipeline of US based companies

- Bump the salary for devs for 25%-30% -> pay the taxes/pension (30k+ more)

- Take a 15% of the annual salary (20-30k)

- Provide cheap senior/staff/principle devs that are cheaper than the same devs, but same or similar quality

True and fair point! I have been trying to change that mindset for a while. One major thing I believe is the uncertainty of contracting - they never know when they may not be needed again. However, if an EE dev can align himself with the company and has a senior dev / manager above him who can help him make that transition - I think they'd make a great team.

I have been trying to get US companies to hire from Eastern Europe (mainly south eastern europe). My company would act as a middleman (essentially outsourcing), pay money to the devs which would work directly 1:1 for that company. The devs would be working for us, yet, we would not manage their day to day activities - we'd just act as an HR/recruiting/legal middleman. I have tried with two major outsourcing companies, yet, they were never that interested. For 100-120k a year, you could get top tier devs with 6-8+ years of experience from Eastern Europe.

Awesome stuff! What are some optimizations you have used, if you don't mind me asking? What's the underlying framework?

Not to downplay the tech, but you could replicate majority of the tech nowadays with proper engineering effort, proper timeline and a budget. YouTube competitor would need to beat them in the business side of things, which is extremely hard, however not unachievable. The company would need to have proper monetization, proper support with proper appeal system and to enable producers to create high quality content without the fear of their accounts being banned. I believe this would be sufficient enough to start making a dent in the YouTube creator base.

I know it's not completely related to the thread - but how is Rails vs Django in terms of performance? I'm getting subjective information that Rails is much faster for APIs in terms of response times, serialization speed etc. although I have been using django for the past 7-8 years and have to say that the best response times was 200-300ms w/o caching for some heavy json responses. And something that should be blazing <100ms, still takes 200ms to respond.

I'm also in Europe, in a small Eastern European country and we definitely heard of them. My inner circle also heard of them - maybe you guys are just way into V8 or 3.0L V6 :) ?

We have lithium and Jadarite[0] reserves in Serbia. Is potentially just trading the ore and/or moving the processing out of Serbia viable? However, with Rio Tinto investing, we're not looking solid environmentally.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadarite

I was at the Zurich airport while I had a connecting flight to Barcelona from Belgrade. My friend and I briefly spoke about Zlatibor (a city in Serbia), 30 seconds later I got an ad for a hotel in Zlatibor, in the middle of Zurich Airport. We never spoke about or searched for Zlatibor.

I'd love some support for more european makes like SKODA or SEAT!

China has already targeted Serbia and Montenegro - infrastructure mainly. I can't find the source now, but I have heard they already started investing in Hungary.

Does specialized staff dev mean you work with a very specific tech stack? If so, do you mind sharing what it is? Also do you work 100% remotely within the States or from another country?

Where does one start when wanting to self-host a DB?

Does this only support Firebase for now? Are there plans to support "regular" APIs for both auth and querying?

How would one go about contacting you?

Do you support speaker diarization?

I believe you have misread it - the commute is an hour +/- 10 minutes.

If anyone from AWS is reading this - is there any way we can get multiple devices for 2FA?

I don't even have that as an option. I only have:

- Collect Analytics

- Allow Content Personalization

- Allow Interest-based Ads

- Allow Accurate Location-Based Services

- Request your data

- Delete your data

Six pack of beer or abs?