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I occasionally write about software development, projects I'm working on, or what I'm reflectin on.

Term-centric search using Elasticsearch and Django

Recently I've been working on a side project that has a search component at it's core. I'm pulling a set of data from an external source, loading it into my database and pushing the data to Elasti…

Setting Up Basic Authentication with Elasticsearch

I've been working with elasticsearch a lot lately and have been really enjoying it. It has an awesome api and so many great built in tools. They make building complex search logic really enjoyable…

Custom Foreign Key Constraints with Django

The current project I'm working on has database tables that are over 2 million records which I'm populating from an external source. The external source provides a postgres dump file to help make …