3 videos · 3 events · 2021–2025 · 1h 51m of video
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DjangoCon US 2025 · November 6, 2025
Timothy McCurrach argues that performance work should begin with proactive, regular profiling rather than waiting for users to report problems or relying on intuition. Broad production measurements reveal patterns that isolated deep dives miss, while local profiling helps test changes; together they guide trade-offs and…
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DjangoCon Europe 2024 · July 11, 2024
Django’s URL routing is built from a resolver, URL patterns, pattern matchers, and match objects: the resolver loads the URL configuration, checks patterns in order, and returns a view with positional and keyword arguments. Understanding these small building blocks makes Django’s source code easier to…
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DjangoCon Europe 2021 · July 31, 2021
Timothy McCurrach reconstructs Django’s WSGI request-response path from first principles, showing how a WSGI callable receives the server environment, creates a request, resolves a URL, calls a view, and returns a response. He incrementally builds a simplified Django handler with response status and headers, cookies,…