Wholesome Django 🥰💻 #0015

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It has been a hectic week at DelightChat, but we are finally ready to launch our Shopify app out to the public in a couple days which is really exciting!

The thing I am most proud of is building an automation rule engine that would help our customers automate repetitive operations using a clean and intuitive interface.

A large percentage of customer support queries are usually customers wanting to know where their order is and therefore there is no reason for a human to reply to queries like this when we have the API available to fetch the tracking URL of their last order.

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To build this rule engine I used this library created by Venmo. It is a great piece of software that did exactly what we wanted. Of Course we had to make a few tweaks to it in order to perfectly fit our use case but thankfully it has an MIT license and hence you can do so with ease.

I would highly recommend this library for anybody looking to build a rule engine of any kind. In a future blog post of mine I will be describing exactly how the library works and how you can modify it for your use case.

What I wrote this week

I wrote about a nifty Django tip that helped me keep my database operations more efficient while calling the save() method. 

Here is the tweet version of it if you prefer the TL;DR

Interesting finds from the depths of the internet

How hackers used slack to break into EA games

How to use fastText for instant language translations

See you next Sunday ✌️