Talks Frank has given at conferences, user group meetups, and other venues.
Frank talked about Django's early history. A few great stories from the very early days of Django and how we managed to get it Open Sourced.
Frank Wiles was on the closing panel discussion about developer career paths beyond coding at DjangoCon 2023 in Durham, NC
This talk slot was originally for Josh Berkus, but he injured his back the week prior to the conference so Frank stepped in with a pretty similar talk on the same topic, Kubernetes. The hardest thing about Kubernetes is getting …
In this group of people, there is one thing we most certainly have in common: We're all bug hunters. Whether you've spent your last sabbatical in Borneo studying the embeddable iPython or you've only just begun your career and wonder …
Collecting and visualizing metrics is hard right, so we'll do them later. Learn how to easily collect any server or client side metrics with Django, InfluxDB, and Graphana.
Advice for raising healthy happy systems and getting to DevOps Nirvana. Observations of what works and doesn't work when doing devops. Suggested tools and processes and how to get what you want out of management.
There are tons of great little features, libraries, and useful tips out there. Python is a relatively easy language to learn, but the whole ecosystem is vast and it's really easy to not know all the cool tips and tricks. …
A panel at DjangoCon 2014 with, Andrew Godwin, Frank Wiles, Honza Král, and Peter Baumgartner. Have questions about getting better performance out of Django or scaling it up large? We've assembled a group of knowledgeable Django experts who have been …
Frank discusses Django performance aspects that are easy to miss, but also easy to fix. Most without a single line of code changes to your project and can yield noticeable performance improvements to your Django applications.
Frank will take us through a quick tour of the must have tools for the modern Django developer: South, Django Debug Toolbar, Celery, Fabric, Haystack, Tastypie, IPython, and so on. This talk from March 2012 at BostonPython was a "Django …
PostgreSQL is pretty powerful all on its own, but did you know you can use Python as a stored procedure language? Not only does using a familiar language make development easier, but you get the power of the standard library …
An open Q&A discussion we did with Alex Gaynor at Boston Python.
PostgreSQL is effectively the default RDBMS for Django. Learn the dark arts of optimizing this powerful database to be blazingly fast on your own hardware or in the cloud. This conference talk from 2011 by Frank Wiles of REVSYS presents …
Panel discussion on ways to sell Python to people who are adverse to the idea.
While pre-optimization is often the root of all evil, knowing how to think about performance and scalability are important skills for any geek. Learn about all the knobs you didn't know you could or should tweak. Code profiling and dealing …
So you’ve written a Django site… now what? Writing the application is just the beginning; now you’ve got to put it into production! In this hands-on workshop we’ll walk through the creation of a full Django deployment environment running on …
This is Frank Wiles' introductory conference talk about Django from February 2010, presenting Django as a BSD-licensed Python web framework designed for "perfectionists with deadlines." The presentation covers Django's core Model-View-Template architecture, explaining how models handle database interactions and business …
Django from the perspective of the Perl world. This 2009 conference talk by Frank Wiles from Revolution Systems uses addiction metaphors to humorously describe his transition from being a devoted Perl developer to embracing Django, the Python web framework. Wiles …
This September 2009 conference talk by Frank Wiles from Revolution Systems focused on PostgreSQL performance optimization with the core principle that "performance is about doing less, not doing something faster." The presentation covered essential postgresql.conf configuration settings including shared_buffers (10-20% …
This presentation by Frank Wiles from Revolution Systems covers the fundamental aspects of PostgreSQL database administration for beginners. The talk walks through essential tasks including initializing database clusters with initdb, creating databases and users, configuring access control through pg_hba.conf and …
This presentation titled "Dolphins vs Elephants: A comparison of MySQL and PostgreSQL" by Revolution Systems provides a comprehensive technical comparison between the two popular open-source database systems. The talk covers key architectural differences, highlighting MySQL's multiple storage engines versus PostgreSQL's …
This February 2007 presentation by Frank Wiles introduces mod_perl 2.0 as a powerful Apache module that embeds a Perl interpreter directly into the web server, enabling dramatic performance improvements (up to 10x faster than traditional CGI), custom protocol implementations beyond …
