Django London Meetup April

April edition will be at Kraken Tech (Octopus Energy Group) London offices.

Talks:

Evaluating the carbon footprint of Django and Wagtail sites
by Thibaud Colas

There is good research about the general climate impact of the digital economy. Great tools to evaluate individual websites too. Between the big picture and individual projects, we can then look at how the frameworks sites are built with affect the carbon footprint – and what changes at the level of frameworks could move the needle.

You will learn:

• Basics of how we evaluate emissions for websites, including relevant tools
• How this compares with general performance auditing
• Evaluating emissions at scale: how we can do this for thousands of projects
• Specific areas of Django and Wagtail which could use improvements

Thibaud works at Torchbox as a developer, core contributor to the Wagtail CMS built on Django, and contributes to Django.

How to profile and improve startup time
by Adam Johnson

A walkthrough of key techniques to profile the time it takes to start up your Django project, and ways to improve that.

Based on this blog post: https://adamj.eu/tech/2023/03/02/django-profile-and-improve-import-time/

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Agenda:

• 6:15pm Doors open, socialising
• 6:30pm Food and drinks offered by our sponsor
• 7:00pm Doors close **
• 7:15pm Introduction, News, Talks
• 8:15pm Socialising
• 9:30pm Fin

** Please make sure to arrive between 6:15pm and 7pm. If you arrive earlier than 6:15pm, you can take a seat at the seating area in the downstairs reception.

Our meetups are governed by a Code of Conduct. Please take a few minutes to read it.

This meetup is sponsored by:

• Kraken Tech (Octopus Energy Group): "Kraken is a revolutionary energy tech platform built with Django. Serving 25 million households worldwide."

• JetBrains: "We make professional software development a more productive and enjoyable experience."

If you want to give a talk at one of our next events, you can use our speaker form.

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