Frank Wiles

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Batteries vs. Speed: The Django/FastAPI Debate

DjangoCon US 2026 · October 26, 2026

Few debates in the Python world generate more discussion than Django vs. FastAPI. After decades of building production systems with both, we've arrived at a simple conclusion: they don't actually do the same thing, and that changes everything about how you should evaluate them.

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A Brief History of Django

DjangoCon US 2024 · December 6, 2024

Django grew out of the World Company, a newspaper and technology business in Lawrence, Kansas. Adrian Holovaty, Simon Willison, and Jacob Kaplan-Moss built a Python replacement for the company’s Perl CMS in 2003–04, extracted Django from it, and persuaded the company to open-source the framework…

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State of Django Panel

DjangoCon US 2018 · November 8, 2018

Django’s strength lies in the wider community around the framework: Django Girls has introduced thousands of people to technology, helped grow Python communities internationally, and shown the value of accessible education, mentorship, translations, and local events. The speakers argue for more inclusive and distributed participation,…

Has appeared with

• Andrew Godwin × 2
• Anna Makarudze
• Calvin Hendryx-Parker
• Honza Král
• Jeff Triplett
• Josh Berkus
• Josue Balandrano Coronel
• Katherine Michel
• Kojo Idrissa
• Peter Baumgartner
• Rachell Calhoun
• Simon Willison

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