Django Chat

A biweekly podcast about the Django web framework by Will Vincent and Carlton Gibson.

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Episode 184:

· 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 …

Episode 183:

· 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 …

Episode 182:

· 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 …

Episode 181:

· 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 …

Episode 180:

· 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 …

Episode 179:

· 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 …

Episode 178:

· 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.

Episode 177:

· 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 …

Episode 176:

· 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.

Episode 175:

· 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 …

Episode 174:

· 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.

Episode 173:

· 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.

Episode 172:

· 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 …

Episode 171:

· 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.

Episode 170:

· 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, …

Episode 169:

· 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, …

Episode 168:

· 65 MIN

Thibaud Colas - 2025 DSF Board Nominations

Thibaud is a Django Software Foundation Board Member (Secretary) and serves on the Django accessibility team. He is also on the core team for Wagtail and works at Torchbox. We discuss the …

Episode 167:

· 68 MIN

DjangoCon US 2024 Recap - Tim Schilling

Tim is the Secretary of DEFNA, the organization that runs DjangoCon US each year. He is also a founder of Djangonaut.space, maintainer of django-debug-toolbar, Google Summer of Code mentor, and more. We …

Episode 166:

· 54 MIN

Django Fellows - Natalia Bidart & Sarah Boyce

Our two Django Fellows join us to discuss new features in the Django 5.1 release, major improvements to accessibility, future updates in Django 5.2 and 6.0, and more.

Episode 165:

· 44 MIN

Fall 2024 Podcast Relaunch

We’re back! This mini-episode starts off the fall season and focuses on what’s new in Django, upcoming DjangoCon US talks, our thoughts on the User model, Carlton’s new Stack Report newsletter, mentoring …