DjangoCon Europe 2024 | Day 3 Lightning Talks

Takeaways from the Lightning Talks at DjangoCon Europe 2024, featuring insights on recruitment, social media, automation, database query optimization, frontend development, monitoring, and more.

Key takeaways
  • Takeaways from the Lightning Talks at DjangoCon Europe 2024:
    • Recruitment for Django projects can be challenging, but it’s worth it to build a strong community.
    • Use a separate social media account for your open-source project to separate your personal and professional life.
    • Use a bot to automate your recruitment process and save time.
    • Use a router to route queries to different databases in Django.
    • Use a foreign key class to simplify database queries.
    • HTMX is a newer, more efficient method for frontend development.
    • Grafana OnCall is a tool for monitoring and alerts.
    • The use of Grafana and other tools for monitoring and management of applications is becoming increasingly popular.
    • The Grafana OnCall team uses Django for the backend.
    • It’s important to have a strong sense of community involvement and issue resolution when building an open-source project.
    • Using a single instance of Django for multiple users can be beneficial.
    • For large projects, it’s a good idea to separate your code and databases into different instances.
    • Mastodon is a decentralized social network and can be used for open-source project communication. *PyCon Portugal aims to bring technology and community together in all Portuguese cities.