DjangoCon US

How can Django admin save busy teams time? Liam Andrew explores live previews, shortcuts, dynamic updates, and maintainable customizations in this DjangoCon US 2017 talk. Watch: youtu.be/puTOzuSxou4 Sponsor DjangoCon US 2027: 2027.djangocon.us/sponsors/i… #Django

We often hear about successful startups but rarely about those that fail. From the archives, Russell Keith-Magee examines what went right and wrong at TradesCloud and the lessons founders can take from it. Watch: youtu.be/2Rhd6z3GxVc Join us in 2027: ti.to/defna/djangocon-us-202…

Should you extend Django’s User model or replace it? From the archives, Julia M. Looney compares proxy models, one-to-one profiles, custom user models, email identifiers, and admin integration. Watch: youtu.be/uLPZYuj7yTg Sponsor DCUS 2027: 2027.djangocon.us/sponsors/i… #Django

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Static files, media files, storage backends, S3, CDNs, how do they fit together in Django? From the archives, Josh Schneier explains Django’s file and storage systems from development through production. Watch: youtu.be/RfTNBLiWjMI Join us: ti.to/defna/djangocon-us-202… #Django

Spreadsheets are everywhere and Python can make them easier to manage. From the archives, Kojo Idrissa demonstrates using OpenPyXL to transform spreadsheets, create JSON, and automate common data tasks. Watch: youtu.be/ewYminvBly8 Sponsor DCUS 2027: 2027.djangocon.us/sponsors/i…

How do you make sense of the JavaScript ecosystem? From the archives, Andrew Pinkham compares frontend libraries and explores React, Redux, Webpack, fetch, Promises, and thunks. Watch: youtu.be/g8d6UbVCuuw Join us in 2027: ti.to/defna/djangocon-us-202… #Django #JavaScript

How can Django help make ML experiments reproducible? From the archives, Lorena Mesa combines Django, Docker, and scikit-learn to version feature engineering and move models toward production. Watch: youtu.be/zaT7DRsB9Cw Sponsor DCUS 2027: 2027.djangocon.us/sponsors/i… #Django #ML

Elasticsearch can do much more than search. Simon Willison explores using it as a denormalized query layer for recommendations, geographic filtering, activity analysis, and more. Watch: youtu.be/NzcvewgqYog Join us: ti.to/defna/djangocon-us-202… #Django #Elasticsearch

How can Django power smooth, real-time applications? From the archives, Ganesh Swami explores WebSockets, Django Channels, state, deployment, scaling, and common async challenges. Watch: youtu.be/BRCx6lSA0fM Sponsor DCUS 2027: 2027.djangocon.us/sponsors/i… #Django #WebSockets

What happens when a Django app outgrows one server and database? From the archives, Andrew Godwin explores traffic patterns, background work, distributed data, performance traps, and team structure. Watch: youtu.be/gCNj8mMoq38 Join us in 2027: ti.to/defna/djangocon-us-202… #Django

How does GraphQL perform in the real world? From the archives, Arianne Dee explores production concerns such as performance and security and demonstrates using Graphene with Django. Watch: youtu.be/bTh-JPgKKdQ Sponsor DjangoCon US 2027: 2027.djangocon.us/sponsors/i… #Django #GraphQL

What does serverless mean for a Django app? From the archives, Rich Jones explores AWS Lambda, Zappa, event-driven architecture, background tasks, scaling, and costs. Watch: youtu.be/ixRZfVBn_A8 Join us at DjangoCon US 2027: ti.to/defna/djangocon-us-202… #Django #Serverless

How can Kubernetes deploy and scale a complete Django stack? From the archives, Frank Wiles covers Django, PostgreSQL replication, persistent storage, failover, application servers, and routing. Watch: youtu.be/4LpaxvKsSlo Sponsor DCUS 2027: 2027.djangocon.us/sponsors/i… #Django

Is it ever too late to learn programming? From the archives, Alicia V. Carr shares her journey of becoming a self-taught developer at 51 and building technology to support people. Watch: youtu.be/ujGCN9MOrRk Join us in 2027: ti.to/defna/djangocon-us-202…

What makes an effective Django test suite? From the archives, Ana Balica explores Django testing tools, common techniques, best practices, performance, and a real-world example. Watch: youtu.be/Zo5q48BG8A4 Sponsor DjangoCon US 2027: 2027.djangocon.us/sponsors/i… #Django #Testing

How can you unit-test Django code more effectively? From the archives, Wayne Merry applies mocks, dummy objects, and test harnesses to views, forms, ORM calls, and templates. Watch: youtu.be/Ue-a20-tKPI Join us in 2027: ti.to/defna/djangocon-us-202… #Django #Testing

Long-running work should not leave users waiting. From the archives, Filipe Ximenes explores Celery, brokers, workers, retries, monitoring, testing, and debugging async tasks. Watch: youtu.be/XjzyOyLbvN8 Sponsor DjangoCon US 2027: 2027.djangocon.us/sponsors/i… #Django #Celery

Django or Flask? The right choice depends on your project. From the archives, David “DB” Baumgold compares their approaches to databases, authentication, structure, and APIs. Watch: youtu.be/UY2JMZjQspY Sponsor DjangoCon US 2027: 2027.djangocon.us/sponsors/i… #Django #Flask