DjangoCon Preview: Fighting Homelessness with Django

Benjamin "Zags" Zagorsky is a systems and architecture wizard. He has led dozens of full-stack software development projects between both the private and public sectors.

Zags graduated from Harvard in 2012 with bachelor's and master's degrees in computer science. He previously worked at Google, Seven Bridges Genomics, was the CTO and co-founder of BetterFit Technologies, and is now the co-founder and CTO of Zagaran, Inc. He is also a published game theorist.

Zags will be giving us a preview of his DjangoCon presentation: Fighting Homelessness with Django. He will present about how his company built CHAMP, the online application for state-aided subsidized housing for the state of Massachusetts. They did it in Django.

In the talk, he'll cover the best tricks of Django they used to build the site, as well as the biggest challenges they faced and how they solved them. This includes:
* Using Django with Vue
* Keeping the site running fast despite high user load and large data volumes
* Managing duplicate applications in the system
* Regularly replicating gigabytes of data to a data warehouse
* Migrating data from 230 organizations into the system
* Zero-downtime deployments
* And more!

Venue:
The space for this meetup is being provided by VentureCafe@CIC. More info here:
https://venturecafecambridge.org/sessions/boston-django-meetup-group/