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The Code Review Batch Size

Aug. 13, 2019 » Anže’s Blog » [Archived Version]

In the last article we learned how important it is to reduce the friction in code reviews, by making code reviews your top priority. Based on the theory of constraints, not working on the bottleneck is counterproductive. If your code review queue is backed up, writing more code will not make you deploy features any faster!

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Django vs Flask - Michael Herman

Aug. 7, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Michael Herman was the co-founder of RealPython and now runs TestDriven.io. He has deep professional experience with both Flask and Django which we discuss along with static sites, microservices, and which framework makes sense for beginners.

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Django Testing - Jeff Triplett

July 31, 2019 » Django Chat » [Archived Version]

Jeff Triplett is a consultant at REVSYS, a Director of the Python Software Foundation, and President of the Django Events Foundation of North America. We talk about testing Django applications, TDD, and Python/Django community involvement.

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Webpack and collectstatic in CI - Building SaaS #28

July 25, 2019 » Django on Matt Layman » [Archived Version]

In this episode, we updated Continuous Integration (CI) to run webpack and the Django collectstatic command. This is part of the ongoing effort to simplify deployment by moving work to CI.

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Web maps: the Mer et Demeures project

July 24, 2019 » Paolo Melchiorre » [Archived Version]

Since ancient times, maps have always allowed to seek and find information in “spatial mode”. Today it is very common for them to be inserted into websites, as we did in the case of Mer et Demeures.

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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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