Julia Elman > Quotes

“For server-side caching, you can easily use Django’s cache utilities. This will trade memory usage to store the cached values while saving the CPU cycles required to generate the images, as”
― Julia Elman, Lightweight Django: Using REST, WebSockets, and Backbone

“The term REST is often abused to describe any URL that returns JSON instead of HTML. What”
― Julia Elman, Lightweight Django: Using REST, WebSockets, and Backbone

“What most users do not realize is that to be a RESTful architecture the web service must satisfy formal constraints. In particular, the application must be separated into a client-server model and the server must remain completely stateless. No client context may be stored on the server and resources should also be uniquely and uniformly identified. The client also should be able to navigate the API and transition state through the use of links and metadata in the resource responses. The client should not assume the existence of resources or actions other than a few fixed entry points, such as the root of the API.”
― Julia Elman, Lightweight Django: Using REST, WebSockets, and Backbone

“With the STATICFILES_STORAGE setting in place, our files will get a unique hash associated with them when DEBUG is set to False. Next”
― Julia Elman, Lightweight Django: Using REST, WebSockets, and Backbone

“Since everything that is needed to construct the requested image is contained within the URL, and there’s little need for authentication, this makes a good candidate for a stateless application.”
― Julia Elman, Lightweight Django: Using REST, WebSockets, and Backbone

“Typically forms are used to validate POST and GET content, but they can also be used to validate particular values from the URL, or those stored in cookies. Here”
― Julia Elman, Lightweight Django: Using REST, WebSockets, and Backbone