A high-level overview of why Django is a great choice when it comes to developing modern web applications.

1. Why Django?
IDAN GAZIT
a web developer at pixane.com
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2. I COME FROM AMERICA
my Hebrew is not perfect
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4. WHY FRAMEWORKS?

5. ONCE UPON A TIME…
HTML
JavaScript

6. ONCE UPON A TIME…
HTML
JavaScript
CSS
PHP

7. WEB DEVELOPMENT
HTML Security
JavaScript Monitoring
CSS API
Caching Search
Testing SEO
Deployment Task Queues

8. THE STACK GETS BIGGER
every year.
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9. SCALE

10. TRAFFIC

11. TRAFFIC

12. TRAFFIC

13. VS.
TRAFFIC

14. VS.
TRAFFIC
COMPLEXITY

15. DON’T REINVENT THE WHEEL
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17. Django Reinhardt
three-fingered jazz guitarist

18. Lawrence Journal-World
a newspaper in Kansas, USA

19. Newsroom
rapid-response
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20. 2003 2005
Created Open-Sourced

21. 2010
4.7 million hits/month
on djangoproject.com
source: http://bit.ly/django_community_2010

22. 2010
16,000 registered users
on Google Groups
source: http://bit.ly/django_community_2010

23. PRODUCTION-READY?

25. MATURE
documentation, release process

26. MATURE
documentation, release process
CONSERVATIVE
committers and code change

27. MATURE
documentation, release process
CONSERVATIVE
committers and code change
STABLE
backwards-compatibility policy

30. michaelmoore.com
rebuilt in 5 weeks

31. studionow.com
sold to AOL
$36.5 million

32. urbanairship.com
55 million push notifications served
to 9 million installed iPhone apps.

33. everyblock.com
hyperlocal news
acquired by msnbc.com in 2009

34. COULD I DO IT WITH _____?
YES!

35. CAKEPHP
ASP.NET MVC
RUBY ON RAILS
DJANGO

36. WHY DJANGO?

37. IS

38. IS
AWESOME

39. LIKE FUZZY SLIPPERS
(pedicure optional)
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40. PYTHON FEATURES
» Readable syntax
» Dynamically typed
» High-level OO (everything is an obj)
» Introspection
» Easy interop
» Cross-platform

41. ATTRACT GREAT TALENT
smart, passionate developers

42. STANDARDS
a few constraints are good!

43. THOUSANDS OF LIBRARIES
“Batteries Included”
PyPI

44. INTEROP
Legacy systems
Existing code & services

45. GOOGLE APPENGINE
Python
(Django optional)

46. TESTING
baked into the standard library

47. *
* BATTERIES INCLUDED

48. BATTERIES INCLUDED
ORM Admin
User Authentication Forms
Sessions Caching
Syndication (RSS) Internationalization
Templates Testing

49. WEB SERVERS
A lot of options
Apache is a popular choice

50. JYTHON SUPPORT
Give your IT guys a .war

51. OBJECT-RELATIONAL MAPPER
Treat your DB rows like objects
Autogenerate SQL queries

52. SUPPORTED DATABASES
MySQL
PostgreSQL
Oracle
3rd Party backend for MSSQL
& more…

53. ADMIN
app for managing content

54. ADMIN

55. URL DISPATCHER
route requests to handlers using
regular expressions

56. VIEWS
1. receive request
2. MAGIC
3. return response

57. IS

58. TEMPLATES
separate responsibility for
logic & presentation

59. GET OUT OF MY WAY
I'm big now.

60. MODULAR FRAMEWORK
Admin?
ORM?
Templates?
Sessions?
Auth?
ALL OPTIONAL

61. TEAR IT OUT

62. TEAR IT OUT
Extend.

63. END RESULT
Happy developers
writing better code
faster.

64. VS.

65. QUESTIONS

66. THANK YOU!
@idangazit
idan@pixane.com
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