How to Create Your Own Blog with Django/How I created This Blog

by Sabbir Ahmed

This article is for fellow engineers, developers, or just tech enthusiasts. I have heard questions about how I started my blog and why?

Let talk first about "why?"

- I just wanted to share what I learned with the world. I will call it a success if I can help one person and one person only.

And now the "How"

The blog is built with Django and Django Rest Framework(DRF). Postgresql is and always be my choice for a database. For deployment, I have used gunicorn, Nginx, Docker, and docker-compose.

The server is secured with Let's Encrypt.

Some Django extensions were used to get better performance. 

• Sorl Thumbnail - To save space and better user experience.
• Django Compressor - To compress and serve static css/js files into an inline and cached file. (I love this library)
• Django CKEditor - That's where I am writing this blog now. It's highly customizable and supports math syntax. So why not!

Subdomains

If you read my articles, you may know that I am a self-taught machine learning engineer with the necessary skill of backend and infrastructure to deploy my machine learning models to production. With limited resources and funding, I was able to deploy only one of my projects (some projects are yet to come), I have deployed an API Gateway and a web app for the project Vincent AI. 

• API Gateway - https://apigw.sabbir.dev
• Vincent AI (web app) - https://vincent.sabbir.dev
• Vincent AI (android app) - The app is a developed project with Mr. Gourango, great x-platform mobile app developer.

Final Result

Rated 98 out of 100 by PageSpeed Insight for Desktop. 

Let me know your thoughts or if you need me to write about anything.