Ask HN: What's your development environment in your startup using Django?

#1

Post by ravenkat » Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 11:01 PM UTC

We use Django heavily and we have all the requirements in requirements.txt and we do pip install on it. Lot of times, some requirements are not installed properly and we have to do pip install when we see an error message for particular package.

The issue we are facing is whenever we run `python manage.py migrate` after cloning the repo/pulling the repo, it takes around 30-50 mins.

Re: Ask HN: What's your development environment in your startup using Django?

#2

Post by cjbprime » Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 11:19 PM UTC

The title is general, but your post question is extremely specific. You should change the title.

Re: Ask HN: What's your development environment in your startup using Django?

#3

Post by ravenkat » Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 11:21 PM UTC

cjbprime wrote: post #2

The title is general, but your post question is extremely specific. You should change the title.

Thanks. Updated.

Re: Ask HN: What's your development environment in your startup using Django?

#4

Post by lsemel » Wed, Mar 25, 2015, 1:05 AM UTC

Share an SQL dump of the database with your developers, so new developers can just load that instead of going through all the migrations.

Re: Ask HN: What's your development environment in your startup using Django?

#5

Post by penguinlinux » Wed, Mar 25, 2015, 3:48 AM UTC

Vagrant and Ansible to provision a vm with nginx python django supervisord.

Then if you want to load the database we have a shell script wrapper that can do a few things.

Load an sql from an s3 private bucket to refresh your local database, so even if you crash anything you can always fix things with a quick shell command. We also tie things into newrelic and sentry to help us debug code locally before it even gets to sandbox or prod.

Re: Ask HN: What's your development environment in your startup using Django?

#6

Post by philipkimmey » Wed, Mar 25, 2015, 4:24 AM UTC

30-50m for ./manage.py migrate seems way too long.

Are you collapsing your migrations?

Unless you need to maintain multiple production environments with different versions of your software you should be doing so with some regularity.

Re: Ask HN: What's your development environment in your startup using Django?

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Post by yen223 » Wed, Mar 25, 2015, 4:34 AM UTC

philipkimmey wrote: post #6

30-50m for ./manage.py migrate seems way too long. Are you collapsing your migrations? Unless you need to maintain multiple production environments with different versions of your software you should be doing so with some regularity.

Agreed. Local migrations shouldn't take longer than a minute or so.