Horilla CRM: A Free, Open Source, Self-Hosted CRM Built on Django

If you've ever tried to run a sales process, you know the failure mode: deals live in a spreadsheet, customer emails are scattered across five personal inboxes, the "pipeline review" is a screenshot pasted into Slack, and the quarterly forecast is a number nobody actually believes. Most teams patch this together with four or five disconnected tools.

The usual fix is a proprietary CRM — but those…

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Rebalanceando a carteira só com o próximo aporte (sem vender)

Parte de uma série sobre construir o Balance , um app de rebalanceamento de carteira
para investidores BR/US/Cripto, como dev solo. O código aqui é simplificado em relação ao real.

Todo investidor que faz aportes recorrentes esbarra na mesma parede:

"Tenho R$ 1.000 pra investir esse mês. O que eu compro pra minha carteira ficar perto da meta?"

A resposta de manual — "venda o que…

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Why Your Django Application Becomes Slow — And How Experienced Developers Prevent It

This is a topic many beginners overlook until they encounter performance issues in production.

One of the biggest surprises for developers is discovering that an application that worked perfectly during development suddenly becomes slow when real users start using it.

A Django application serving ten users may feel lightning-fast. The same application serving thousands of users can become…

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From Feature Delivery to Platform Engineering.

The Problem: Feature Velocity Was Creating Structural Debt

The system originally started as a simple feature delivery backend:

  • A Django API powering agricultural insights
  • Celery workers handling asynchronous processing
  • Independent endpoints for each new capability
  • A growing set of Earth Observation computations (NDVI, NDWI, etc.)

At first, it worked.

But as more features…

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