Karen Tracey

Keynote: Django 6: The Most Exciting Release Ever

DjangoCon US 2026 · October 26, 2026

Django 6.0 has multiple very exciting new features, including:

How to Enjoy Debugging in Production

DjangoCon US 2025 · November 6, 2025

Also given at DjangoCon Europe 2025

Karen Tracey argues that production is not the end of a project but the start of learning how real users and real data interact with it. Production problems often come from unexpected or changing data, assumptions that exclude unusual cases, and differences between development and…

Django + Alpine.js + htmx Ups & Downs

DjangoCon US 2024 · December 6, 2024

Also given at DjangoCon Europe 2024

Karen Tracey argues that Django, htmx, and Alpine.js form a useful middle ground between traditional server-rendered pages and large front-end frameworks. Django retains responsibility for templates, forms, validation, authentication, and routing; htmx adds richer server interaction by requesting and swapping HTML; and Alpine.js manages lightweight…