Jake Howard

5 videos · 3 events · 2024–2026 · 2h 35m of video

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Django Tasks

April 15, 2026

Jake is a Senior Systems Engineer at Torchbox and the author of DEP 14, django.tasks, the highlight feature in Django 6.0. We discuss his work on the Django security team, work with Wagtail, AI dabblings, and more.

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Empowering Django with Background Workers

DjangoCon Europe 2024 · July 11, 2024

Background workers move slow, failure-prone, or hardware-specific work out of Django’s request/response cycle, improving responsiveness, throughput, and reliability. Jake Howard explains the trade-offs and demonstrates how email sending can be moved into a worker using Django RQ. He argues for Django Tasks, a first-party API…

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