Django News - Python Developers Survey 2026 - Jan 30th 2026

Use Memray to profile Django startup, identify heavy imports like numpy, and reduce memory by deferring, lazy importing, or replacing dependencies.

Julia Evans explains why Django is well-suited to small projects, praising its explicit structure, built-in admin, ORM, automatic migrations, and batteries-included features.

Lily explores Django template edge cases: now tag format handling, numeric literal parsing, and the lorem tag with negative counts, proposing stricter validation and support for format variables.

Nicer ways to test exceptions and to test cached function results.

One woman's quest to answer the question: does JIT go brrr?

Not strictly Django but from Python 3.15 release manager Hugo playing around with Tachyon, the new “high-frequency statistical sampling profiler” coming in Python 3.15.