London Django Lightening Talk

Featuring Adam Johnson

Decomposing a Django Monolith: Two Different Approaches

Featuring Lim Hoang

We have all heard, or even lived, this story before -- we had a greenfield project with an exciting business opportunity, so we chose Django with all of its batteries included to move fast and go to market quickly. Fortunately, things went very well, the business was booming and the company...

A Gentle Introduction to Experimentalism by Mixcloud

Featuring Vaughan Allan

An overview of A/B testing and a Django module that may assist with this process.

Dependency Health Checkup for your Django Apps

Featuring Andy Jones

A demo of Depcheck, an open-source tool to check the health of your Python dependencies.

Impulse Demo

Featuring David Seddon

A quick demo of Impulse, a command line tool for visualising the architecture of any python package.

Build search into your Django app

Featuring Emanuil Tolev

From ops to UX, a lot of useful problems in many fields of tech are search problems. This talk will introduce you to the 'why' behind search and provide a quick introduction to integrating Elastic Search into a new Django application, focusing on easily building your app's first...

Django: breaking the monolith!

Featuring Raul Tavares

Bringing Django to the era of micro-services, with Django Rest Framework (DRF) and a front-end framework - using React as an example.

Technologies That Will be Around in 21 Years Time

Featuring Adam Johnson

The tech industry is normally focussed on the new. But what isn’t changing around us? What things are worth learning because they’re unlikely to disappear any time soon? It turns out SQL, Python, and Django are likely to survive thanks to a mathematical observation...

Getting Your Feet Wet with Kaggle

Featuring Jelena Jovanovic

A Kaggle crash course aimed at beginners. The goal is to get familiar with the tools and workflows data scientists use. We will walk through one Kaggle competition from start to finish and along the way learn about Jupyter notebooks, Pandas and scikit-learn, and concepts of classification,...

Django, MQTT & Websockets -Talk about Performance!

Featuring Patrick Fitzgerald

I will introduce a lightweight queuing system called MQTT, it's Websocket features, how the combination might solve problems you didn't know you had, and how it might integrate with your Django environment. Bandwidth permitting this will feature an interactive demo. Do not miss!

Using Django to Baseline and Analyse Sql Server Performance at Transport for London

Featuring Chris Wedgwood

As a Sql Server DBA at Transport for London a big part of my job is analysing sql performance and ensuring our applications scale. There are third party tools you can pay lots of money to do database performance analysis but these are really expensive and sometimes there isn't the budget for...

Practical Redis with Django / Python

Featuring Antonio Melé

Redis is a versatile tool that can be very useful in our Python/Django projects. This talk explains how Redis can be used in multiple different scenarios, with real examples of building counters, leaderboards, analytics' tools, and a recommendation engine. The talk showcases practical...

Craig Goes to Scotland to Learn About Python

Featuring Craig Anderson

Craig shares gives his personal experiences and highlights from his time at EuroPython 2018 in Edinburgh.

What we Think of GraphQL, 88 Million Queries Later

Featuring Rob Kirberich

An exploration of GraphQL with Rob Kirberich.

Concurrency and Parallelism in Python: Not as Complicated as you Think

Featuring Ibukun Oluwayomi

In this talk, Ibukun Oluwayomi will attempt to answer questions such as what really is concurrency and is concurrency the same thing as parallelism? Check it out!

GraphQL and Django

Featuring Mat Clayton

Mat Clayton, CTO and co-founder of Mixcloud (a Django powered website with over 10Million active users) will take us through GraphQL in the Django world. Check it out!

10 Lessons From 10 Years of Selling Dev Work - What I wish I knew when I started...

Featuring Matthew Hall

Ten years ago, Matthew swapped his nice stable dev job for the challenge of starting his own business creating websites and web software, with no formal sales, marketing or business training.

Pip Install Disaster Waiting-to-Happen

Featuring Lili Kastilio

Open source packages and libraries save us time, money and some much needed sanity. But with every new dependency comes the chance you’re letting in more than you bargained for. We’ll take a look at the tools and techniques you can use today to make sure you’re not the one responsible for...

Introspection and Reflection In Python

Featuring Luna Chen

Introspection/reflection allows us to gain a great deal of flexibility and control when building our program. In Python, we get the introspection feature out of the box. This talk will explore various builtin python functions and modules that fall under the category of introspection, including...

Better transactional emails: track and receive email replies in your web apps

Featuring Christopher McDonald

As web application creators we are generally pretty confident in sending transactional emails, but how can you get more value from them? Sure, you can include some tracking ability to get read counts and link clicks, but what about going one step further and being able to handle replies to your...