Tom Christie

2 videos · 2 events · 2016–2019 · 1h 17m of video

Talks

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Sketching out a Django redesign

DjangoCon Europe 2019 · April 21, 2019

Python’s async/await model can handle far more concurrent work than threads, enabling high-throughput APIs, non-blocking network calls, WebSockets, server-sent events, and resilient services. Tom Christie explains that async brings real costs: explicit I/O, incompatible synchronous and asynchronous call chains, missing database and library support, and…

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Lightning Talks by Many People

DjangoCon US 2016 · August 24, 2016

Adrienne Lowe explained that the Django Software Foundation supports core development, sprints, conference attendance, and Django Girls, and urged companies and individuals to fund that work through memberships and donations. A comic Gilbert-and-Sullivan-style song celebrated Django’s models, ORM, security defaults, testing, documentation, community, and PostgreSQL…

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