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Journey to migration Django 3.0.4 web app to 4.2.5

Reconfigure virtual environment

• apply Python 3.11.5
• source myven/bin/activate
  
  

Change RDBMS

• MySQL(AWS RDS) 8.0.xx to MariaDB(Docker) 11.1.2
  • apply DEFAULT_AUTO_FIELD = 'django.db.models.BigAutoField' globally
  • makemigrations, migrate success
    
    

Change AWS S3 file upload method

• Both web static files and user-uploaded files are stored in an AWS S3 bucket
• Now, AWS Lambda Edge is employed for credential and presigned URL generation
  while AWS CloudFront is utilized with S3 for file uploads and downloads