diff --git a/.github/workflows/linting.yml b/.github/workflows/linting.yml
index 683db02..7ebb28f 100644
--- a/.github/workflows/linting.yml
+++ b/.github/workflows/linting.yml
@@ -23,12 +23,14 @@ jobs:
           python-version: '3.13'
 
       - name: Install dependencies
-        run: python -m pip install --upgrade pip pylint
-
-      - name: Run Pylint
-        run: pylint --rcfile=tests/.pylintrc $(find tests -name "*.py")
-
+        run: |
+          python -m pip install --upgrade pip
+          pip install pylint
 
+      - name: Run Pylint on application code
+        run: pylint --rcfile=tests/.pylintrc endpoints/
 
+      - name: Run Pylint on tests
+        run: pylint --rcfile=tests/.pylintrc tests/
 
 
diff --git a/tests/.pylintrc b/tests/.pylintrc
index 969cf96..a05b427 100644
--- a/tests/.pylintrc
+++ b/tests/.pylintrc
@@ -2,6 +2,16 @@
 # Set the Python version
 py-version=3.13
 
+# Specify pickle analysis path 
+persistent=yes
+limit-inference-results=100
+
+# Add ability to load C extensions for analysis
+extension-pkg-whitelist=boto3,psycopg
+
+# Parallelize analysis for faster runs
+jobs=0
+
 [MESSAGES CONTROL]
 disable=
     invalid-name,
@@ -11,24 +21,70 @@ disable=
     too-many-branches,
     too-many-statements,
     too-many-instance-attributes,
+    missing-module-docstring,
+    missing-function-docstring,
+    fixme,
+    line-too-long,
+    
+# Re-enable some important checks
+enable=
+    unused-import,
+    unused-variable,
+    undefined-variable,
+    syntax-error,
+    dangerous-default-value
 
 [BASIC]
-good-names=i,j,k,x,y,z,_
+# Good variable names which should always be accepted
+good-names=i,j,k,x,y,z,e,_,id,db,fp,fn
+
+# Regular expression which should match good variable names
+variable-rgx=[a-z_][a-z0-9_]{0,30}$
+
+# Regular expression which should match good class names
+class-rgx=[A-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]+$
+
+# Regular expression which should match good function names
+function-rgx=[a-z_][a-z0-9_]{0,30}$
 
 [FORMAT]
 # Set max line length to a loose standard
-max-line-length=200
+max-line-length=100
+
+# Check string quote consistency
+string-quote=single
+triple-quote=double
+docstring-quote=double
 
 [DESIGN]
 # Allow higher complexity before warnings
-max-attributes=10
+max-attributes=12
 max-args=10
-max-locals=20
+max-locals=25
 max-returns=10
-max-branches=15
-max-statements=50
+max-branches=20
+max-statements=60
+max-complexity=15
 
 [TYPECHECK]
 disable=
     no-member,
     no-self-use
+
+# Generated members that we don't want to check
+generated-members=REQUEST,acl_users,aq_parent,objects,DoesNotExist,id,pk
+
+[SIMILARITIES]
+# Minimum lines number of a similarity
+min-similarity-lines=10
+
+# Ignore imports when computing similarities
+ignore-imports=yes
+
+[LOGGING]
+# Format style of string formatting
+logging-format-style=new
+
+[IMPORTS]
+# Deprecated modules to warn about
+deprecated-modules=optparse,tkinter.tix