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Antonio Melé
Antonio Melé
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Antonio Melé

Antonio Melé has been crafting Django projects since 2006, for clients spanning multiple industries. He is Engineering Director at Backbase, a leading global fintech firm dedicated to facilitating the digital transformation of financial institutions. He co-founded Nucoro, a digital wealth management platform. In 2009 Antonio founded Zenx IT, a company specialized in developing digital products. He has been working as CTO and consultant for several tech-centric startups. He has also managed development teams building projects for large enterprise clients. He has an MSc in Computer Science from Universidad Pontificia Comillas and completed the Advanced Management Program at MIT Sloan. His father inspired his passion for computers and coding.
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Handling authentication

DRF provides authentication classes to identify the user performing the request. If authentication is successful, the framework sets the authenticated User object in request.user. If no user is authenticated, an instance of Django’s AnonymousUser is set instead.

DRF provides the following authentication backends:

  • BasicAuthentication: This is HTTP basic authentication. The user and password are sent by the client in the Authorization HTTP header, encoded with Base64. You can learn more about it at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basic_access_authentication.
  • TokenAuthentication: This is token-based authentication. A Token model is used to store user tokens. Users include the token in the Authorization HTTP header for authentication.
  • SessionAuthentication: This uses Django’s session backend for authentication. This backend is useful for performing authenticated AJAX requests to the API from your website’s frontend...
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Antonio Melé has been crafting Django projects since 2006, for clients spanning multiple industries. He is Engineering Director at Backbase, a leading global fintech firm dedicated to facilitating the digital transformation of financial institutions. He co-founded Nucoro, a digital wealth management platform. In 2009 Antonio founded Zenx IT, a company specialized in developing digital products. He has been working as CTO and consultant for several tech-centric startups. He has also managed development teams building projects for large enterprise clients. He has an MSc in Computer Science from Universidad Pontificia Comillas and completed the Advanced Management Program at MIT Sloan. His father inspired his passion for computers and coding.
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