Kate Heddleston

2 videos · 1 event · 2014 · 1h of video

Talks

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Choose Your Own Django Deployment Adventure

DjangoCon US 2014 · September 19, 2014

The speakers use an audience-driven “choose your own adventure” to follow a Django application from its first deployment to a growing production system. They explain the components of a conventional deployment—Linux, Nginx, WSGI, Gunicorn, Django, PostgreSQL, static files, and Celery—then cover security problems such as…

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Technical Onboarding, Training, and Mentoring

DjangoCon US 2014 · September 18, 2014

Kate Heddleston defines technical onboarding as helping a new employee become productive, independent, and confident. She argues that effective onboarding improves retention, company and team productivity, and diversity by making expectations and social connections explicit rather than leaving newcomers to rely on existing networks. Onboarding…

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