Django Chat

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

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Episode 64:

· 63 MIN

Python at Microsoft - Nina Zakharenko

Nina is a Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft, Twitch Streamer, Pythoniasta, PyCon 2019 Keynoter, long-time DjangoCon speaker, and now teacher at FrontendMasters. We discuss learning Python & Django mid-career, VSCode, Azure, and …

Episode 63:

· 66 MIN

Roll Your Own Tech Job - Erin Mullaney

Erin is a Django consultant whose previous employers include Wharton and Caktus Group. We discuss how to go solo, manage the business aspects, and find clients.

Episode 62:

· 57 MIN

Django Security - Markus Holtermann

Markus is a longtime Django contributor. We discuss the work of the Security and Ops Teams, his day job at Crate.io, async, and the future of Django.

Episode 61:

· 53 MIN

Practices of the Python Pro - Dane Hillard

Dane is the author of a new book, Practices of the Python Pro. We discuss using Django at scale, pytest, and teaching beginners.

Episode 60:

· 49 MIN

Advanced Deployment - Katie McLaughlin

Katie is a Developer Advocate for Google and regular conference speaker. We discuss advanced deployment techniques and tools such as Google Cloud Run, relational vs non-relational databases, Terraform, and more.

Episode 59:

· 49 MIN

JustDjango - Matthew Freire

JustDjango is a popular YouTube channel and website dedicated to Django learning resources. We discuss how Matthew learned Django, building the website itself, payments, mentors, and more.

Episode 58:

· 44 MIN

Translations - Andrew Knight

Django has a powerful built-in translations framework that we discuss with Andrew Knight. Topics include internationalization vs localization, common gotchas, Django’s internal translations team, and more.

Episode 57:

· 34 MIN

LearnDjango.com

Will recently launched a new Django site, LearnDjango.com. We discuss architecting new projects, prototypes vs production, payments, performance, and more.

Episode 56:

· 41 MIN

Google Summer of Code - Sage Abdullah

Sage was a 2019 Google Summer of Code student and contributed cross-db JSONField support coming in Django 3.1. We discuss his background in programming and advice for future student contributors.

Episode 55:

· 35 MIN

Remote Work

Remote working tips and strategies we've learned over the years, plus asides on self-employment and staying productive with little kids at home.

Episode 54:

· 34 MIN

API-First Architecture

We discuss the multiple ways to architect APIs with Django REST Framework, including focus on authentication, front-end frameworks, and performance.

Episode 53:

· 17 MIN

Resources & Mentorship

We discuss the best current Django resources and how to find a Django mentor.

Episode 52:

· 58 MIN

Django & Healthcare - Jacinda Shelly

Jacinda is the co-founder of Apero Health and formerly CTO of DoctorOnDemand. We discuss lessons learned building both platforms from scratch and how to scale code and teams.

Episode 51:

· 23 MIN

Django Software Foundation

We discuss the role of the Django Software Foundation in the larger community and how/why to become more involved. Editing note: James Bennett is the Secretary of the DSF, not the Treasurer.

Episode 50:

· 65 MIN

Technical Writing - Mikey Ariel

Mikey is a technical writer at Red Hat and gave the keynote at DjangoCon Europe 2019 on documentation. We discuss how to get into technical writing, her work on Write the Docs, …

Episode 49:

· 31 MIN

Growing Old Gracefully as a Programmer

We discuss how to maintain a career as a programmer, the manager career path, startups vs big company culture, and practicing self-care.

Episode 48:

· 49 MIN

GeoDjango - Anna Kiefer

Anna discusses GeoDjango, a built-in contrib module that turns Django into a world-class geographic Web framework.

Episode 47:

· 12 MIN

Security Releases

The Django security team recently rushed out a fix in two days time, start to finish. We discuss the normal security cadence and why staying on the latest Django release is so …

Episode 46:

· 63 MIN

Django's Async Future - Tom Christie

Tom is the creator of Django REST Framework, HTTPX, and a whole suite of new async Python web stack packages.

Episode 45:

· 47 MIN

Authentication - José Padilla

José has made major contributions to the Django ecosystem, especially around Django REST Framework and authentication. He is now an engineer at Auth0.