News

Django Developers Survey 2021 by JetBrains and the DSF

Please take a moment to fill out the official Django Developers Survey. It helps the community know how Django and related tools/technologies are being used and guide the future development of the framework.

Django bugfix release: 3.2.6

New Django bugfix available. As always, the best security is to be up-to-date with the latest version of Django. Here are the official docs on how to upgrade properly.

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Articles

Get yourself a better Django proxy experience by Niccolò Mineo

A couple of tips when working with Django proxies that will make end-users grateful and developers sigh in relief.

Django Todo App with AJAX and jQuery

Detailed look at an async Django todo app powered by jQuery.

Efficient Pagination in Django and Postgres

A look at Django pagination limitations and three alternative methods to improve application performance with Postgres.

Handling 100 Requests Per Second with Python & Django

Rather than discussing advertising and privacy, in this post we're going to talk about how we scaled our ad server using some of the same tools and techniques we use on Read the Docs.

Events

Call for Proposals | Django Day Copenhagen 2020

The third Django Day will take place on September 24th, 2021. Deadline for submissions is August 15th.

Tutorials

Real Python: Set Up a Django Project

Instructions on a traditional setup for a new Django project and app.

Videos

DEFNA interviews: Jeff Triplett

In this episode, we talked with Jeff Triplett about his involvement in DjangoCon US, the DSF, and the PSF. We also talk about the current and future state of conferences.

Podcasts

Running in Production: HorseRecords Lets You Record Everything about Your Horses

Andy Ide goes over building a horse SAAS app with Django and Python. It's hosted on a single Linode server.

Django Chat #97: Contributing to Django with David Smith

David is an accountant who has contributed massively to Django in recent years, taking over django-crispy-forms, improving djangobench, and becoming a member of Django’s Triage and Review team.

Projects

brettcannon/python-launcher

Launch your Python interpreter the lazy/smart way!

anymail/django-anymail

Django email backends and webhooks for Amazon SES, Mailgun, Mailjet, Postmark, SendGrid, Sendinblue, SparkPost and more.

microsoft/mssql-django

The Microsoft SQL Server 3rd Party Backend for Django provides a connectivity layer for Django on SQL Server or Azure SQL DB.

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