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Async Django - Andrew Godwin

July 24, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Andrew Godwin is responsible for South/Migrations, Channels, and much of the new Async work in Django 3+.

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Django for Professionals - Book Release

July 21, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

A special bonus episode to celebrate the release of William's Django for Professionals book release. We discuss what makes a Django site "production ready."

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Django Co-Creator - Simon Willison

July 17, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Simon Willison is a co-creator of Django and currently works at Eventbrite. We discuss the early days of Django, the founding of Lanyrd, and his ongoing work with Datasette to make it easier to publish and explore data online.

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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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