Emma Delescolle
.ical

Long-time pythonista, Django fan, co-maintainer and co-author of DRF-Schema-Adapter and other OSS libraries

I am from Belgium and have been involved in open-source at different levels for over a 15 years.

One of the things I enjoy the most is sharing knowledge with others. And this is why I enjoy writing tutorials as well as giving talks and workshops.

Twitter: https://twitter.com/emmadelescolle
Github: https://github.com/nanuxbe

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Talks

Rewriting Django from (almost) scratch in 2021

You're probably asking yourself "Why would someone wanna do that?". Django is one of the most successful web frameworks out there, the codebase is well established and well tested.

That is true. On the other hand, a codebase that old is bond to have some technical debt.
IMHO, Django's technical debt is mostly situated in the admin which is one of the most appreciated features of Django while at the same time, possessing the least people familiar with its internals or willing to learn them.
Another sort of technical debt is one that is backward compatibility and having to keep choices made more than a decade ago.