When SaaS Is Not Allowed: Shipping Django as a Desktop App

TALK: When SaaS Is Not Allowed: Shipping Django as a Desktop App by Jochen Wersdorfer

Some teams face constraints that make standard web deployment impossible: confidential data that must never leave user machines, air-gapped environments, and workloads that are too expensive to run centrally. This talk presents a production pattern for turning Django into a desktop application by packaging it inside Electron. The case study is Steel-IQ, an open-source steel-industry simulation tool for multi-decade decarbonization scenarios, shipped for local execution with sensitive data.

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