Expert insights from the Wildfish team

Django-Dashboards is an open source Python package developed by Wildfish. The goal of the library is to allow developers to create data-driven dashboards in a "Django-like" way, and produce production ready applications quickly.

When it comes to developing software solutions, collaboration is key to success.

In most scenarios, we like to deploy our infrastructure to two environments, stage and production, both a replication of each other. This gives us and our clients confidence when it comes to going live i.e. there are no hidden gotchas in the production environment.

Last week our developers visited PyCon UK in Cardiff. Here's each of their favorite talks

All startups stem from the seed of an idea. A gap in the market. An unfulfilled challenge. Unfortunately, many founders don’t have the technical expertise to get from an initial concept to an effective, transformative solution.

Kubernetes has become the de facto standard for container orchestration, making it easier to manage large-scale applications.

Testing the waters and validating your business concept with minimal investment

Here at Wildfish, we’ve been working away on django-dashboards to support some of our clients. The aim was to build a package for quickly building data-driven dashboards in a “django like” way, closely coupling with the ORM and other key features of Django and minimising the frontend development required to build a new dashboard. The aim of this post is to provide a quick intro to django-dashboards and how to get started.

In today's data-driven world, it's crucial for businesses to have access to insights and information in real-time. That's where dashboards come in. Dashboards allow users to instantly interpret data from multiple sources in a single view.

Django stands out as one of the most powerful and versatile web frameworks available

The GOV.UK Design System is a toolkit and a set of guidelines for creating sites and services for Her Majesty's Government which are clear and consistent and accessible.

Our CTO Richard gave a talk at PyCon UK, asking if it is ever worth committing coding sins for the greater good. He talked about techniques which can make your code easier to use at the cost of being harder to maintain, and when the effort is worth the reward.