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The Code Review Bottleneck

July 15, 2019 » Anže’s Blog » [Archived Version]

Code reviews are insanely useful. The only problem is that they have the nasty habit of making your cool new feature stuck in the queue waiting for reviewers. Let’s take a look at how to make sure code reviews are done as efficiently as possible. Let’s see how we can do quality code reviews without impeding feature velocity.

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Keeping Django Models Ordered

July 13, 2019 » REVSYS Blog » [Archived Version]

Keeping Django Models Ordered

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URLs: PKs, Slugs, & UUIDs

July 10, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Designing proper URLs is a core architectural decision in any website. In this episode we discuss the pros and cons of common approaches, from PKs to Slugs, UUIDs, and beyond.

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Connecting Shiv Apps with Ansible - Building SaaS #26

July 4, 2019 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, we finished connecting the Django Shiv app into Ansible. This required messing with file permissions and copying settings files to their proper place.

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Katie McLaughlin

July 3, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Katie McLaughlin wears many hats in the Python/Django world: a prolific speaker, PSF Fellow, DSF Directory, and currently works at Google.

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Code Reviews and the Company Goal

June 27, 2019 » Anže’s Blog » [Archived Version]

Code reviews are an important part of how we write code today. It’s pretty rare to find a company that doesn’t practice code reviews in some shape or form. If the drivers for doing code reviews in the company aren’t engineers it’s regulation. Code reviews have become a compliance requirement for some security standards (e.g. PCI DSS 3.0)!

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It's Permissions, Dummy! - Building SaaS #25

June 27, 2019 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, we got into a static files problem that caused a template to fail to load from the Shiv app. After some serious spelunking through the Django code and deep debugging, we found the file permission error that was the source of the problem.

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Auphonic - Georg Holzmann

June 26, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Georg Holzmann is the founder of Auphonic, a leading provider of automated audio post-production powered by Python and Django.

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In the Guts of a Shiv App - Building SaaS #24

June 20, 2019 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, we got our hands dirty with the Django Shiv app that we build to work out issues with finding templates and other settings problems.

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DjangoCon US 2019 - Jessica Deaton

June 19, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Jessica Deaton is a conference co-chair for DjangoCon US 2019 and a board member of the Django Software Foundation. We discuss how her involvement grew in the Django community and how others can become more involved too.

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