Nov. 27, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
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.
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We discuss how caching dramatically improves website performance, Django’s 4 built-in options, and Redis vs Memcached.
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I have a Django based project, and am doing unit tests with py.test. To debug a test failure it’s sometimes useful to see the actual SQL queries that Django emitted, which is surprisingly hard. I assumed that that would be such an obvious and common need, that a simple switch (for pytest-django) or easy plugin […]
Read MoreNov. 13, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
Kenneth Love is a longtime Django developer, teacher (at Treehouse), and dev lead at O’Reilly. We discuss how to onboard new team members, burnout, remote work, and his advice for Django newcomers.
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How DRF permissions work and how to configure them in a Django application.
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Channels are the current way to add async support and websockets to Django. We discuss the history of the project, its current status, and how it relates to Django 3+.
Read MoreOct. 30, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
What does mastery in Django really feel like? We discuss our learning journeys, what’s different after years of experience, how to ask for help, and why coding is a zen experience.
Read MoreOct. 23, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
Middleware makes Django, well, Django, but is poorly understood. In this episode we discuss how middleware works and why it's so important.
Read MoreOct. 16, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
Signals are a powerful but poorly understood and widely abused feature in Django. We explain how they work and introduce Carlton's "Am I allowed to use signals" test.
Read MoreOct. 9, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]
EdX is an online education platform used by more than 20 million learners and institutions including MIT and Harvard. We discuss migration from Python 2 to 3, where to put business logic, and the limits of Django defaults on a website at massive scale.
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