When *Not* To Use the ORM & Goodbye REST: Building GraphQL APIs with Django
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Talk #1 - Goodbye REST: Building GraphQL APIs with Django
This talk will go over how to build GraphQL APIs with Django and look at the benefits / tradeoffs of using GraphQL. It will also highlight some real-world gotchas that we encountered while building the Jetpack app, and discuss what the future looks like for GraphQL + Django.
Jayden is the lead engineer at Jetpack, an on-demand delivery company which helps college students get anything they need whenever they need it.
Talk #2 - When Not To Use the ORM
The Django ORM is a very powerful tool, and one of the great attractions of Django. It makes writing simple queries trivial, and does a great job of abstracting away the database layer in your application.
And sometimes, you shouldn't use it.
This talk is about situations and efficiencies you can obtain by using direct SQL. Even if you know no SQL at all, this can be a powerful technique to greatly improve your application's performance without sacrificing maintainability or code readability.
Christophe Pettus is the chief consultant and CEO of PostgreSQL Experts, Inc., a boutique PostgreSQL consultancy based in the San Francisco Bay Area. He's also a Django contributor and a former member of the Django Software Foundation board of directors.
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When *Not* To Use the ORM & Goodbye REST: Building GraphQL APIs with Django