Hacking Django Channels for Fun and Profit

This video features Calvin Hendryx-Parker at DjangoCon Europe 2021 .

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Published June 27, 2021

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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%

Presenters

Calvin Hendryx-Parker

Event

DjangoCon Europe 2021

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