DjangoCon 2021 | Hacking Django Channels for Fun and Profit | Calvin Hendryx-Parker

• Intro and Backstory on Django Channels history — 3%
  • Synchronous vs Async Request Loops
  • WSGI vs ASGI for your Django Application
• Intro to WebSockets — 3%
  • Demo of them used in the real world web applications
  • How they interact with async event loops
• Django Channels Core Concepts — 10%
  • Consumers
  • Channel Layers
  • Background Workers
• Consumers and ASGI Routing Example — 10%
• Where to Background Workers Fit? — 10%
  • Lightweight Tasks
  • Considerations when reliability is not needed
• How about reversing the Consumer use case? — 20%
  • Create long-running Background Workers
  • Connect to remote services such as Discord to create Bots
• Example application integration with Discord — 20%
  • Connect to Discord on start and listen for messages and other events
  • Send our own application messages into Discord
• Building your own long-running Channel Worker — 20%
  • What to add to your project
  • Define channel background tasks to run at start
• Next steps for this project — 2%
  • Upstream or create Channels addon to make this functionality more generic
  • Add ability to define one-shot tasks
  • Add ability to define post-job tasks to run on stop
• Conclusion — 2%

Date Added: September 19, 2024