Benjamin "Zags" Zagorsky

5 videos · 5 events · 2021–2025 · 3h 5m of video

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Fighting Homelessness with Django

DjangoCon US 2024 · December 6, 2024

Benjamin “Zags” Zagorsky explains how his team built CHAMP, Massachusetts’ centralized online application and screening system for subsidized housing. By replacing fragmented paper applications and correspondence with a shared digital workflow, CHAMP makes it easier for applicants—including people experiencing homelessness—to apply, complete screening, submit documents,…

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Hosting and DevOps for Django

DjangoCon US 2023 · December 14, 2023

Benjamin “Zags” Zagorsky explains how to run Django services that tolerate failures, scale with demand, support testing, deploy automatically, protect data, and make errors easier to diagnose. He recommends managed hosting as the default: Elastic Beanstalk for straightforward Django applications, ECS for containerized and more…

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