Django Chat Podcast
1) PHP Web Frameworks - Roman Pronskiy
Roman Pronskiy is the Executive Director of the PHP Foundation and a Developer Advocate at JetBrains. We discuss PHP’s evolution over the years, Laravel vs Symfony, and what Python can learn from the ...Show More
2) Django Deployments in 2025 - Eric Matthes
Eric is the author of Python Crash Course, the Mostly Python newsletter, and the django-simple-deploy package. We talk about rewriting the Django deployment story, different hosting providers, and tea...Show More
3) Event Sourcing - Chris May
Chris is a Senior Staff Engineer at WellSky, a software company in the health industry. We discuss his background as a graphic designer, learning Python (and Django) as an adult, his multiple conferen...Show More
4) DjangoCon Europe 2025 Recap
A quick recap episode sharing thoughts and highlights from attending DjangoCon Europe last week in Dublin, Ireland. We both gave talks and shared favorites from the official schedule, social events, a...Show More
5) Coding with LLMs - Frank Wiles
Frank is a former President of the Django Software Foundation, a current Steering Council member, and the founder of RevSys. We discuss using LLMs daily, most notably Claude Code and Aider, and switch...Show More
6) PyCon US 2025 - Elaine Wong & Jon Banafato
Elaine and Jon are the Chair and Co-Chair of PyCon US, taking place in Pittsburgh, PA, this May. We discuss how to make the most of a conference, in-person vs online, what to wear, and more.
7) Django and Rust Tooling - Lily Foote
Lily joins us again to talk about the new Steering Council, composite primary keys in Django 5.2, working with uv package manager, and more.
8) Sticking with Django - Florian Apolloner
Florian is a long-time Django contributor who previously served on the Steering Council and Security Team. We discuss changes to Django over the last 20 years, switching over to `uv`, why he’s not a f...Show More
9) Official Django MongoDB Backend - Jib Adegunloye
Jib is a Senior Software Engineer at MongoDB working on the newly-released official Django MongoDB backend. We discuss building out this new support, future plans, and his previous career at Meta.
10) The Future of Django - Emma Delescolle
Emma is a longtime Django community member and newly elected member of the Django 6.x Steering Council. We discuss the future of Django, what it can learn from the Ember community, class-based views, ...Show More