Smarter’s React integration is a bridge between Django’s server-rendered web platform and modern React user interfaces. Rather than treating React as a disconnected single-page application bolted onto Django, Smarter implements React as a first-class extension of the Django runtime itself.…
This is the first major release since The Smarter Project’s MVP debut in October 2025. As the project nears a quarter million lines of source code, we decided to clean house on this release. Technical features that address access, security…
Smarter’s nightly MariaDB backup runs as a Kubernetes CronJob that dumps the database with a read-only account, receives only the environment variables it needs, installs only the tools it needs and verifies them, checks that the dump is complete before…
Caching a function’s results sounds like a solved problem, and inside one Python process it is, because functools.lru_cache does it in one line. But a Django application doesn’t run in one process. It runs in several web workers and several…
The short answer is, “it’s always about money”. Smarter runs MariaDB for relational persistence, and Traefik for its reverse proxy service (aka the ‘web server’). Both work great, but you nonetheless would not be faulted for asking, “why cut against…