Lunch Talk Series: High Performance Django at Ten: Old Tricks & New Picks

This iteration of the Lunch Talk Series will be covering Peter Baumgartner’s performant DjangoCon US talk, “High Performance Django at Ten: Old Tricks & New Picks”.

You should watch this if:

• You are interested in scaling Django
• You are interested in DevOps for Django applications

This talk centers around the book “High Performance Django”. The first part provides the context for the rest of the talk. Peter provides insight into the book writing process and value determination. The second part goes over the following categories of topics:

• The Big Picture (general architecture and systems)
• The Build (specific tools to make things happen)
• The Preparation (being ready to turn things on)

He provides his analysis on whether the book had it right or what his new opinion is. It’s well-structured, moves at a perfect pace and provides a wonderful introduction to a variety of topics.

It’s great to see someone who has a lot of experience speak about their lessons learned in a concise, yet informative way. It’s also telling that Peter points out some of his views changed from what was in the book. I’m curious which of our current standards people feel are most likely to change again the future. Beyond that, my takeaways were twofold. First, I 100% echo Peter’s ask for more opinionated guides on deployment. Second, I’m going to need to re-read some books to find where there’s overlap in “High Performance Django” and “Designing Data-Intensive Applications” by Martin Kleppmann.