5 videos · 5 events · 2025–2026 · 3h of video
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DjangoCon US 2026 · October 26, 2026
Also given at DjangoCon Europe 2026
New in Django 6.1, model field fetch modes provide a way to avoid the deluge of queries from accessing un-fetched objects during a loop (also known as the "N+1 queries" problem). You may be familiar with how Django's prefetch_related() and select_related() methods can prevent these…
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Djangonaut Space 2026 · March 24, 2026
Jacob Walls argues that testing is not a separate, lesser activity beneath development, but a way of thinking that every developer and reviewer needs. Drawing on manual black-box QA, Django contributions, and his training as a composer, he explains why software should be treated as…
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DjangoChat 2025 · October 1, 2025
Jacob Walls describes moving from music composition and software testing into Python and Django, where contributing to the project gave him feedback and helped him learn. As a new Django Fellow, he is taking on release work and helping contributors: Django 6.0 includes the initial…
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DjangoCon Europe 2025 · June 5, 2025
Arches lets cultural-heritage specialists define arbitrary schemas, while storing their data in generic entity-attribute-value structures rather than separate Django tables and models. Jacob Walls wanted code that still felt like working with Django models—especially querysets usable by Django REST Framework—without generating models, migrations, SQL views,…