Carlos Martinez

Django REST Framework: Taking your API to the next level

DjangoCon US 2019 · October 18, 2019

Carlos Martinez shows how to take a Django REST Framework API from a simple event-and-ticket implementation to one that remains usable as data grows. He demonstrates dynamic serializers for context-specific nested representations, `select_related` and `prefetch_related` to avoid excessive database queries, URL filtering, Django’s response cache…

Understanding JavaScript Libraries via React...

DjangoCon US 2017 · September 8, 2017

Andrew Pinkham explains JavaScript from the perspective of a Django developer who had to build a React-based front end without initially understanding the problem React was meant to solve. He traces the web’s history to show how HTML, CSS, the browser DOM, and JavaScript created…