A relatively up to date list of technical talks our staff has given at various conferences, user group meetups, and other venues.
When I started writing Django REST Framework code in 2017, there was a lot I didn't know, like how class-based views worked and what a serializer was. After 3+ years of using DRF, I want to share the things I've …
There's one part of building a Django app I hate: setting up handling of assets and media. There are so many moving pieces — static assets, asset compilation and compression, file uploads, storage engines, etc. etc. I can never remember …
Join us for a panel on the State of Django: the state of the Django codebase, but also the state of the Django community as represented by organizations like the Django Software Foundation, Django Girls, and DEFNA. Panelists include Frank …
In this talk, you will step through the parts of a Dockerfile and learn what they do. Then, Lacey will introduce you to Docker Compose and explain why using it to run multiple containers is helpful. Finally, you will learn …
As a developer with two English degrees, over the years Lacey has identified some concrete ways this education makes me a better developer. This talk will discuss how we can take lessons from literature to write more readable code, make …
Wagtail is a great Django CMS, but getting started with it is a little intimidating. Wagtail has a ton of useful features that their docs don’t go into, so this talk is here to help! You’ll get to know the …
In this talk, you will step through the parts of a Dockerfile and learn what they do. Then, Lacey will introduce you to Docker Compose and explain why using it to run multiple containers is helpful. Finally, you will learn …
This talk slot was originally for Josh Berkus, but he injured his back the week prior to the conference so Frank stepped in with a pretty similar talk on the same topic, Kubernetes. The hardest thing about Kubernetes is getting …
In this group of people, there is one thing we most certainly have in common: We're all bug hunters. Whether you've spent your last sabbatical in Borneo studying the embeddable iPython or you've only just begun your career and wonder …
Collecting and visualizing metrics is hard right, so we'll do them later. Learn how to easily collect any server or client side metrics with Django, InfluxDB, and Graphana.
In this talk, I'll review what has been written in the last few decades on nomenclature, go over the easy parts of right or wrong as defined in PEP8 and other style guidelines, and finally suggest some patterns and anti-patterns …
Advice for raising healthy happy systems and getting to DevOps Nirvana. Observations of what works and doesn't work when doing devops. Suggested tools and processes and how to get what you want out of management.
There are tons of great little features, libraries, and useful tips out there. Python is a relatively easy language to learn, but the whole ecosystem is vast and it's really easy to not know all the cool tips and tricks. …
A panel at DjangoCon 2014 with, Andrew Godwin, Frank Wiles, Honza Král, and Peter Baumgartner. Have questions about getting better performance out of Django or scaling it up large? We've assembled a group of knowledgeable Django experts who have been …
Jacob Burch and Jacob Kaplan-Moss teamed up to discuss how to remove or replace aspects of Django that you don't like. Which are easy to do and which are harder. Topics include replacing Django templates with jinja2, replacing the ORM, …
Frank discusses Django performance aspects that are easy to miss, but also easy to fix. Most without a single line of code changes to your project and can yield noticeable performance improvements to your Django applications.
Jacob Burch's wildly popular talk on contributing to Django. Breaking all the rules on talks he goes from idea, to code, to contribution while haggling with core contributors in the audience live! Highly recommended.
Coming from a speaker who escaped a notion to "why would we need to translate?" this talk aims to show what actually goes into translating a website or app using Django's Internationalization tools. Covered will be an overview of batteries …
Frank will take us through a quick tour of the must have tools for the modern Django developer: South, Django Debug Toolbar, Celery, Fabric, Haystack, Tastypie, IPython, and so on.
Jacob Burch also gave this popular talk again at PyCon 2012 in Santa Clara.
PostgreSQL is pretty powerful all on it's own, but did you know you can use Python as a stored procedure language? Not only does using a familiar language make development easier, but you get the power of the standard library …
An open Q&A discussion we did with Alex Gaynor at Boston Python.
This talk aims to briefly introduce the core concepts of caching and covers the best practices of using Django's cache backend. "Are you caching?" is a question asked early on in any yarn on web scaling advice. These conversations are …
PostgreSQL is effectively the default RDBMS for Django. Learn the dark arts of optimizing this powerful database to be blazingly fast on your own hardware or in the cloud.
Panel discussion on ways to sell Python to people who are adverse to the idea.
A panel to discuss the future of no-sql/non-related databases in Django.
While pre-optimization is often the root of all evil, knowing how to think about performance and scalability are important skills for any geek. Learn about all the knobs you didn't know you could or should tweak. Code profiling and dealing …
So you’ve written a Django site… now what? Writing the application is just the beginning; now you’ve got to put it into production! In this hands-on workshop we’ll walk through the creation of a full Django deployment environment running on …
Django from the perspective of the Perl world.
Web development sucks. It’s true: web development, at its worst, is difficult, repetitive, and boring. The tools we have suck. At best, they make web development slightly less painful, but we’re a long way from making web development awesome. The …
Basic PostgreSQL administration
