Talks by Frank

Talks Frank has given at conferences, user group meetups, and other venues.

2017

End to End Django on Kubernetes

Frank Wiles given August 15, 2017

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 a handle on the jargon. Frank walks you through all of the various bits to help you run a Django web application on k8s.

2016

Entomology 101: Effective Bug Hunting

Frank Wiles given July 20, 2016

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 at anyone using more than django-debug-toolbar, we can all learn from the latest trends and research in bug hunting. From Frank's his early childhood of having a simple ant farm, up to and including his long experience in the deepest, most pristine, and undisturbed wilds of the Internet, his experience has honed his abilities to find and identify bugs. Learn some of the best tools of the trade that will help in your daily hunts. Bug hunting tech you will learn about: - django-debug-toolbar - pdb/ipdb - using iPython embed - effectively using Python logging so you don't need to use the last quite so often Bug hunting is all about visibility. You may have the best net ever invented, but you can't catch a bug you can't see. Sure, you can spend all day turning over rocks and hope for the best or you can gear up with the tried and true night vision goggles all the pros use.

2015

Easy App Metrics

Frank Wiles given September 9, 2015

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.

2014

Python ProTips

Frank Wiles given October 16, 2014

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. Frank gives you a few of the best ones that can vastly speed up your day to day development.

Real World Django Q&A

Frank Wiles given September 2, 2014

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 there to answer the questions you have. While every site has its own challenges most follow similar patterns that are often easy to solve.

Frequently Missed Performance Gains

Frank Wiles given May 13, 2014

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.

2012

Django Developer’s Survival Guide

Frank Wiles given March 22, 2012

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.

Putting Python in PostgreSQL

Frank Wiles given March 9, 2012

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 and PyPi to boot. Come learn the ins and outs of putting Python in your DB.

2011

Secrets of PostgreSQL Performance

Frank Wiles given September 7, 2011

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.

How to Sell Python

Frank Wiles given March 11, 2011

Panel discussion on ways to sell Python to people who are adverse to the idea.

2010

Alice in Performanceland -- Down the Rabbit Hole

Frank Wiles given September 7, 2010

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 with your database aren't the only places to find performance gains. Performance and scalability are holistic endeavors.

Django Deployment Workshop

Frank Wiles given July 19, 2010

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 a cluster of (virtual) machines.

2009

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