Django Chat

Rachell is a trustee of DjangoGirls. She was previously an English teacher in Korea before learning to code with the help of DjangoGirls and has worked since 2016 as a full-stack Django developer.

Matt is a Software Architect at Doctor on Demand and a prolific Django educator. We talk about Django at scale, leading a large engineering team, and teaching Django to newcomers.

Paolo is a Django contributor and prolific conference speaker based in Italy. We discuss using PostgreSQL-powered full text search within Django as using GeoDjango for mapping projects.

Matthias is a longtime Django contributor and member of Jazzband, which manages many 3rd party packages including django-debug-toolbar. He’s also the creator of feincms and founder of the company Feinheit.

Nominations are due November 30th for next year’s Board of the Django Software Foundation, the non-profit that runs Django. We discuss the DSF’s mission, day-to-day work, and how to become more involved in the community.

Carl is a Software Engineer at Instagram and a Django Core developer. We discuss his contributions to Django and how Django and Python are used at Instagram today.

Aaron is a developer advocate at MongoDB and Board Member of the Django Software Foundation. We discuss relational vs non-relational databases, the developer advocate role, and giving virtual conference talks.

David is an engineer at Read the Docs where he focuses on EthicalAds.io, a developer and privacy-focused ad network. We talk about internet advertising and why much of it is not ethical, the open source code powering the ad server, and what it takes to serve tens of millions of monthly API requests.

Michael Kennedy is the creator of the Talk Python podcast, courses, and a new series from Manning. He joins us to discuss how Python has become a "full spectrum" language, how Python 3.5 changed everything, and where Django fits into the larger Python community.

We’re back after a few weeks away! We discuss the Django Community Survey results, virtual conferences taking place, upcoming Django Technical Board vote, and more.

We're taking a summer break and will be back in September with new episodes, guests, and topics.

Django Fellow Mariusz Felisiak joins us to discuss the new features in Django 3.1, including async views/middleware/tests, cross-db JSONFields, improved admin, the addition of pathlib, and more.

Aymeric is a longtime Django contributor and member of the Django Technical Board. We discuss his background with Django, contributions to the codebase and docs, multiple open-source projects, and more.

Adam is a Django Technical Board member, longtime contributor, and author of the new book Speed Up Your Django Tests. We talk all things testing in Django, performance tips, continuous integration, pytest, easy wins, optimal test structure, and more.

Kalob is a developer and educator for Wagtail, the popular Django-based CMS.