SyDjango ReConnect

We are excited to announce our first event of 2024, SyDjango ReConnect, which will be held on the 21st of February at Cover Genius. We are looking forward to seeing you all again and to welcome new members to our community.

See the other event details below:

### Address

L19, 45 Clarence Street, Sydney 2000 (Cover Genius), near Wynyard Train Station

• The lifts are opened until 6pm. If you arrive later please message us on Slack. We will try to send someone to meet you downstairs and bring you up.
• There is no security gates downstairs, but the building management requires Cover Genius to provide the list of after-hour guests, thus we need you to complete the registration form on arrival (or in advance).

### Schedule

• 17:00 Doors open, networking (pizza and beers are provided by Cover Genius)
• 17:45 Talks Start
• 19:30 Talks End. More networking
• 20:00 Event Ends

### Talks

#### What is Django and why is it relevant in 2024? – Rui Da Costa

Django is a free and open-source, Python-based web framework” but it was first released in 2005, which is ancient in comparison to many current web frameworks. But why then is it the most popular Web Framework for Python Developers? Maybe it’s just because Python, the programming lingua franca of industry is slow to change?
According to the 2023 Stack Overflow survey only 11% of developers use it, but that still puts it alongside Flask, WordPress, ASP.NET and Spring, and significantly ahead of Laravel and FastAPI. Seek.com.au also has a similar number of positions open in Sydney for Django as ASP.NET, NodeJS and Flask.
So why would you choose an 18-year-old framework for your startup, scaleup or enterprise? Come listen and talk with us at SyDjango’s reboot and maybe you’ll get some idea of why we love it AND we get paid to use it at companies of all sizes and with very different use-cases.

#### 10 Simple Techniques to Make Your DRF API Faster - Artem Kolesnikov

Performance is crucial for the success of any web application, and Django Rest Framework (DRF) is no exception. In my presentation I will speak about 10 simple yet powerful techniques that my team used to optimise performance of a big fat DRF application the team has been working on for a several years. I will try to maximise the practical value of the talk by skipping complex startegies and focusing on those techniques that could give you good results with relatively small effort.

#### Concurrency in Python and Django – Hashim Muqtadir

While Python has had tremendous success in making simple things easy and hard things possible, managing concurrency is one area where there has historically been a lot of confusion. GIL too limiting? Greenlets too magical? Threads too dangerous? Processes too slow? Function colors too divisive? What’s an engineer to do? Misconceptions surrounding concurrency in Python even led people to think they need to switch languages to effectively manage it. Thankfully, hard work by projects like Django have shown that this is completely achievable in modern Python, without sacrificing the Zen of Python. Let’s learn about leveraging concurrency facilities effectively in Python and Django.