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· 67 MIN
Django Survey 2025 - Jeff Triplett
Django Board Member Jeff Triplett joins us to discuss the results from the Django Survey, highlighting key trends, packages, and actionable ideas.
· 43 MIN
Django on the Med - Paolo Melchiorre
Paolo and Carlton are just returned from the inaugural Django on the Med event and here to discuss how it came to pass, the code improvements from just three days, and plans …
· 58 MIN
Django Fellow - Jacob Walls
Jacob is the newest Django Fellow and we talk about his background, transitioning from music to programming, what to expect in Django 6.0 this December, and more.
· 59 MIN
DjangoCon US 2025 Recap
We're back after the summer break, discussing DjangoCon US last week, Django 6.0 feature freeze, adding APIs to core Django, and Django on the Med next month.
· 65 MIN
PHP Web Frameworks - Roman Pronskiy
Roman Pronskiy is the Executive Director of the PHP Foundation and a Developer Advocate at JetBrains. We discuss PHP’s evolution over the years, Laravel vs Symfony, and what Python can learn from …
· 68 MIN
Django Deployments in 2025 - Eric Matthes
Eric is the author of Python Crash Course, the Mostly Python newsletter, and the django-simple-deploy package. We talk about rewriting the Django deployment story, different hosting providers, and teaching Python & Django …
· 54 MIN
Event Sourcing - Chris May
Chris is a Senior Staff Engineer at WellSky, a software company in the health industry. We discuss his background as a graphic designer, learning Python (and Django) as an adult, his multiple …
· 34 MIN
DjangoCon Europe 2025 Recap
A quick recap episode sharing thoughts and highlights from attending DjangoCon Europe last week in Dublin, Ireland. We both gave talks and shared favorites from the official schedule, social events, and hallway …
· 62 MIN
Coding with LLMs - Frank Wiles
Frank is a former President of the Django Software Foundation, a current Steering Council member, and the founder of RevSys. We discuss using LLMs daily, most notably Claude Code and Aider, and …
· 62 MIN
PyCon US 2025 - Elaine Wong & Jon Banafato
Elaine and Jon are the Chair and Co-Chair of PyCon US, taking place in Pittsburgh, PA, this May. We discuss how to make the most of a conference, in-person vs online, what …
· 47 MIN
Django and Rust Tooling - Lily Foote
Lily joins us again to talk about the new Steering Council, composite primary keys in Django 5.2, working with uv package manager, and more.
· 74 MIN
Sticking with Django - Florian Apolloner
Florian is a long-time Django contributor who previously served on the Steering Council and Security Team. We discuss changes to Django over the last 20 years, switching over to `uv`, why he’s …
· 63 MIN
Official Django MongoDB Backend - Jib Adegunloye
Jib is a Senior Software Engineer at MongoDB working on the newly-released official Django MongoDB backend. We discuss building out this new support, future plans, and his previous career at Meta.
· 63 MIN
The Future of Django - Emma Delescolle
Emma is a longtime Django community member and newly elected member of the Django 6.x Steering Council. We discuss the future of Django, what it can learn from the Ember community, class-based …
· 75 MIN
Beyond Golden Pathways - Teaching Django with Sheena O’Connell
Sheena is a long-time Django developer and teacher currently focused on Prelude Tech, small workshops focused on topics like Django, HTMX, and Git.
· 51 MIN
Django in 2025
Carlton and Will catch up after the holidays and look ahead to Django news in 2025, new tools, new roles, launching the LearnDjango.com site, upcoming Django events, and more.
· 58 MIN
pretix - Raphael Michel
Raphael is the founder of pretix, an open-source ticketing platform. We discuss its early iterations, the technical challenges of ticketing, using Celery and Django REST Framework, DecimalField vs IntegerField for currency, and …
· 66 MIN
Python Tooling - Hynek Schlawack
Hynek is a core Python contributor, author of the popular attrs library, and an engineer at Variomedia, a Germany-based web hosting company. We discuss Python performance, tooling (especially uv), and more.
· 50 MIN
Django for the Meat Industry - Bryton Wishart
Bryton is the co-founder of Cured Compliance, an Australia-based startup providing compliance software for butchers. We discuss the inspiration behind the product, building it from scratch with Django, multitenancy, using Django Q, …
· 63 MIN
Python Core Developer - Mariatta Wijaya
Mariatta is a Python Core Team member, Python podcaster, and former PyCon Chair. We discuss her work with Python over the years, using Django in her day job, and her new consultancy, …