Modern Django Deployments in 2026 with Will Vincent

Deploying a Django website is deeply confusing for newcomers, but it doesn't have to be! In this talk, I'll provide a conceptual and practical overview of the process to demystify it all and provide some hard-won lessons along the way.

We'll start with a high-level look at the architecture underpinning it all: web servers vs app servers, queues, security considerations, databases, caching, environment variables, and more. How to think about choices such as Platform-as-a-Service versus VPS? Managed databases? Docker? And more.

Then we'll dive into a step-by-step deployment checklist, looking at how to switch from their default local settings to something production ready. What are the minimum steps to deploy a web app? And what are the recommended additional steps to maximize security and performance?

This talk was presented by Will Vincent at DjangoCon US 2026 in Chicago, Illinois, USA
https://2026.djangocon.us/talks/modern-django-deployments-in-2026/

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