Django Chat

Kostja Palović is the founder of Appliku, a deployment platform for Django. We chat about his past running an agency, creating Appliku, and the current state of Django deployments.

Keryn (Kez) Knight is a longtime contributor and current member of the Django Triage and Review Team. We discuss the rough edges of Django, async, error pages, optimization, and the lifecycle of Python and Django.

James is an original core contributor and longtime pillar of the Django community. We discuss Django’s early years, what it got right (and wrong), how the community developed, and the current state of web development with Django.

Calvin is the co-founder of Six Feet Up, a Python/Django consultancy. We discuss the upcoming Python Web Conference 2022, a recent lightning-prediction project, and current best practices around Django APIs in production.

Anna is a software engineer from Zimbabwe who is the President of the Django Software Foundation and a Trustee of Django Girls. We talk about her formal computer science education, organizing events in Africa, and Django Girls.

Eric is the author of the new django-simple-deploy package which provides Django deployment in three steps. We discuss the deployment learning cliff, the ideal hosting platform, and maintaining his bestselling book Python Crash Course.

Karen is a developer and co-owner at Caktus Group, a former DSF Board member, and author of the book Django Testing and Debugging. We discuss her PhD computing background, auto-scaling large sites, JavaScript front-ends, and more.

Mohammed and Matthew are software developers at UC Berkeley who use Django and Wagtail extensively. We discuss their programming careers, porting existing projects over to Django, and their excitement around htmx.

Adam is a prolific contributor to the Django community and the author of the forthcoming book, Boost Your Django DX. We discuss his work on the Django Security Team, the Django Technical Board, multiple recent Django third-party packages, and the new book.

This episode is a replay from November 27, 2019. We will return in 2 weeks with new guests and episodes! Listen Notes is a search engine for podcasts powered by Django. It’s founder, Wenbin Fang, joins us to talk about building a one-person internet company, prototyping it over a weekend, and how simple tools scale well.

Nikita is an open-source developer who maintains the Django-stubs package bringing type stubs to Django. We discuss why static typing is so powerful, the benefits of functional programming, and best practices for organizing logic within a Django project.

Jamie is a founder at dabapps, a Django consultancy in the UK. We talk about Django REST Framework’s origins and two open-source projects, Django-readers and django-zen-queries, that help craft performant Django queries.

Raymond is a software engineering manager at Crayon.co. We discuss learning to program as an adult, his entrepreneurial journey, and making the switch from developer to team manager.

Nigel is the author of the books Mastering Django and Build a Website with Django 3. He also maintains the website djangobook.com. We discuss teaching Django to newcomers, print vs video, testing, and more.

Ned is the creator of `coverage.py`, a longtime organizer of the Boston Python Group, and works at EdX. We discuss what’s changed in Django over the years, his thoughts on testing best practices, and managing a massive codebase.