2 videos · 2 events · 2023–2025 · 51 min of video
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DjangoCon US 2025 · November 6, 2025
Alex Henman draws on maintaining a Django codebase for roughly a decade to explain how teams can live with incremental migrations and accumulated legacy complexity. For front ends, he recommends interoperability rather than an all-at-once rewrite: custom browser events can let legacy code load components…
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DjangoCon Europe 2023 · June 8, 2023
Alex Henman explains how to build flexible, deeply nested search over interconnected Django models without exposing raw SQL to users. He represents searches as nested JSON containing branches between related models and leaves for field conditions, then recursively converts that structure into Django Q objects…