Django Chat

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

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Episode 84:

· 49 MIN

Wagtail, React, & Gatsby - Dawn Wages

Dawn is a Wagtail Core Member and regular Django/Python conference speaker. We discuss being community-taught, working with React and Gatsby, and making the transition to full-time consulting work.

Episode 83:

· 40 MIN

Django Girls - Rachell Calhoun

Rachell is a trustee of DjangoGirls. She was previously an English teacher in Korea before learning to code with the help of DjangoGirls and has worked since 2016 as a full-stack Django …

Episode 82:

· 48 MIN

Telemedicine - Matt Layman

Matt is a Software Architect at Doctor on Demand and a prolific Django educator. We talk about Django at scale, leading a large engineering team, and teaching Django to newcomers.

Episode 81:

· 40 MIN

Search & GeoDjango - Paolo Melchiorre

Paolo is a Django contributor and prolific conference speaker based in Italy. We discuss using PostgreSQL-powered full text search within Django as using GeoDjango for mapping projects.

Episode 80:

· 38 MIN

Jazzband - Matthias Kestenholz

Matthias is a longtime Django contributor and member of Jazzband, which manages many 3rd party packages including django-debug-toolbar. He’s also the creator of feincms and founder of the company Feinheit.

Episode 79:

· 13 MIN

Django Software Foundation - 2021 Board Nominations

Nominations are due November 30th for next year’s Board of the Django Software Foundation, the non-profit that runs Django. We discuss the DSF’s mission, day-to-day work, and how to become more involved …

Episode 78:

· 40 MIN

Django @Instagram - Carl Meyer

Carl is a Software Engineer at Instagram and a Django Core developer. We discuss his contributions to Django and how Django and Python are used at Instagram today.

Episode 77:

· 56 MIN

MongoDB - Aaron Bassett

Aaron is a developer advocate at MongoDB and Board Member of the Django Software Foundation. We discuss relational vs non-relational databases, the developer advocate role, and giving virtual conference talks.

Episode 76:

· 51 MIN

Ethical Ads - David Fischer

David is an engineer at Read the Docs where he focuses on EthicalAds.io, a developer and privacy-focused ad network. We talk about internet advertising and why much of it is not ethical, …

Episode 75:

· 54 MIN

Teaching Python - Michael Kennedy

Michael Kennedy is the creator of the Talk Python podcast, courses, and a new series from Manning. He joins us to discuss how Python has become a "full spectrum" language, how Python …

Episode 74:

· 42 MIN

Django Community Survey

We’re back after a few weeks away! We discuss the Django Community Survey results, virtual conferences taking place, upcoming Django Technical Board vote, and more.

Episode 73:

· 1 MIN

Summer Break

We're taking a summer break and will be back in September with new episodes, guests, and topics.

Episode 72:

· 38 MIN

Django 3.1 Preview - Mariusz Felisiak

Django Fellow Mariusz Felisiak joins us to discuss the new features in Django 3.1, including async views/middleware/tests, cross-db JSONFields, improved admin, the addition of pathlib, and more.

Episode 71:

· 48 MIN

Aymeric Augustin

Aymeric is a longtime Django contributor and member of the Django Technical Board. We discuss his background with Django, contributions to the codebase and docs, multiple open-source projects, and more.

Episode 70:

· 50 MIN

Speed Up Your Django Tests - Adam Johnson

Adam is a Django Technical Board member, longtime contributor, and author of the new book Speed Up Your Django Tests. We talk all things testing in Django, performance tips, continuous integration, pytest, …

Episode 69:

· 60 MIN

Learning Wagtail - Kalob Taulein

Kalob is a developer and educator for Wagtail, the popular Django-based CMS.

Episode 68:

· 60 MIN

Modern Django Development - Jeff Triplett

Jeff is a partner at REVSYS and a Director of the Python Software Foundation. We discuss modern development tools including Github Actions, Docker, Tailwind, and more.

Episode 67:

· 60 MIN

Python Crash Course - Eric Matthes

Eric is the author of Python Crash Course, the bestselling Python book in the world. We discuss his background as a high school teacher, attending PyCon for the first time, and his …

Episode 66:

· 72 MIN

Two Scoops of Django - Daniel Feldroy

Daniel and Audrey Feldroy are the authors of the updated book Two Scoops of Django as well as Django Crash Course. They created the popular cookiecutter, cookiecutter-django, and django-crispy-forms packages, as well …

Episode 65:

· 74 MIN

JWTs and AI - David Sanders

David is the author of the popular django-rest-framework-simplejwt package. We discuss authentication, JWTs, and his current role at an AI startup.