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.
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
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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