Surviving Django Transactions

Abstract:

Django transactions have evolved and changed considerably since the 1.0 days… do you know what the best way to handle them is? We’ll talk about what transactions are (the answer may surprise you!), how to use them to your best advantage, and what old and new tools Django offers to manage transactions sensibly.

Christophe Pettus:

Christophe Pettus is the director of the application development practice at PostgreSQL Experts, Inc. He’s been doing Postgres since 1997, and Django since 2007. He’s a Django contributor.

Schedule:

6:30pm - Check in and socialize. Food & Drinks supplied by Splunk!

7:00pm - Lightning talks

1. Sebastien Mirolo: multi-tier implementation

2. Lukhnos Liu: plug-in for coffeescript/sass

3. Lucas Wiman: django template rendering fail fast

7:20pm - Christophe's talk

8:00pm - Q&A

8:30pm - Time to head home

Notes from Splunk:

• Please use your full name on your meetup handle to make the check-in process easy for us.

• Splunk is kindly providing us with food & drinks, please clean up after yourself!

• Space is limited! Please keep your RSVP up to date.

About Splunk:

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