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MongoDB - Mark Smith

Feb. 1, 2023 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Mark is a developer advocate at MongoDB, longtime Django developer, and co-chair of DjangoCon Europe 2023. We discuss how Mongo can work well alongside Django, type hinting, Rust, and more.

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MongoDB - Mark Smith

Feb. 1, 2023 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Mark is a developer advocate at MongoDB, longtime Django developer, and co-chair of DjangoCon Europe 2023. We discuss how Mongo can work well alongside Django, type hinting, Rust, and more.

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Foxley Talent - Jon Gould

Jan. 18, 2023 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Jon is a longtime Django/Python recruiter who runs Foxley Talent. We discuss how to stand out to recruiters and companies, current trends in the market, and giving back to the Django community.

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Sentry - David Cramer

Jan. 4, 2023 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

David is co-founder and CTO of Sentry, an open-source application monitoring and error tracking tool. We discuss building the early versions in Django, being self-taught, the advantages of middleware, next-generation hosting platforms, and general tips to avoid reinventing the wheel constantly in technology.

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Django LMS - Sheena O'Connell

Dec. 21, 2022 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Sheena is the CTO of Umuzi, a South Africa non-profit that trains young people in technical skills. We discuss the curriculum, teaching real-world programming skills, and building an online LMS due to Covid.

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Postgres - Craig Kerstiens

Dec. 7, 2022 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Craig Kerstiens works at Crunchy Data, a provider of managed Postgres services. He previously worked at Heroku, Citus, and Azure Postgres among other companies. We talk about hosting providers today, the challenges of managed databases, Heroku’s early years, and more.

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Butter CMS - Jake Lumetta

Nov. 23, 2022 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

ButterCMS is a headless or API-first CMS built with Django. We discuss the initial inspiration, caching, performance, hosting, and running a SaaS business at scale.

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DjangoCon US 2022 Recap

Nov. 9, 2022 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

DjangoCon US 2022 takeaways, new Django developments, getting unstuck as a junior developer, and more.

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HorseRecords - Andy Ide

Oct. 26, 2022 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Andy Ide is the creator of HorseRecords, a comprehensive Horse Husbandry App written in Django. We discuss his 20+ year career as a programmer, the local to production gap in Django, django-unicorn, htmx, and more.

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Django Unicorn - Adam Hill

Oct. 12, 2022 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Adam is a software engineer at The Motley Fool and the author of multiple open source packages including Django Unicorn, Coltrane, and minestrone. We discuss his approach to writing software, the perfect settings file set up, and more.

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