Peter Baumgartner

Recent talks

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High Performance Django at Ten: Old Tricks & New Picks

DjangoCon US 2025 · November 6, 2025

Peter Baumgartner revisits High Performance Django, published in 2014, and assesses which of its recommendations still hold. He argues that simplicity, proven technologies, caching, database awareness, monitoring, and deferring slow work remain central, while modern deployments should favor managed services, containers, CDNs, hosted observability, and…

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Just enough ops for developers

DjangoCon US 2022 · November 24, 2022

Peter Baumgartner explains the minimum operations knowledge Django developers need when deploying through platforms such as Heroku, Fly.io, or Render and managed database services. He covers how CPU, memory, disk, and I/O affect performance, cost, and failure modes; how to configure workers, avoid excessive memory…

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Prepping Your Project for Production

DjangoCon US 2019 · October 18, 2019

Peter Baumgartner lays out a practical path for taking a Django project into production while keeping the system simple, stable, secure, performant, and observable. He compares hosting choices, recommends managed services for databases and other stateful components, and explains how to handle configuration, secrets, web…

Has appeared with

• Andrew Godwin
• Andrew Pinkham
• Buddy Lindsey Jr.
• Frank Wiles
• Honza Král
• Mark Lavin
• Rikki Endsley
• Tracy Osborn

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