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My takeaways from DjangoCon EU 2025
Takeaways from DjangoCon EU 2025 tl;dr: Dublin and the Django community are awesome. Zach Bellay published on 12 min, 2212 words Here are some of the most interesting things I learned at DjangoCon EU 2025 in Dublin, Ireland, partially written with the help of AI: link to talks My list of the best talks are at the bottom.Me at DjangoCon EU 2025! Database - How to lock DB rows from Django: select_for_updatelocks a row prior to making changes, ensuring data consistency in concurrent environments.
seems like people prefer django-cotton over django-components because of the HTML like syntax there was much talk about how django's governance as a project, and basically only a tiny minority participates or contributes (superstars) everyone was friendly, life essentials in Europe seem much, much better than in the US -- Germans don't pay for college, have state sponsored healthcare, no such thing as "at-will" employment, excellent public transit, much cheaper childcare compared to the US, etc Lots of conference goers worked for the government Dublin is also experiencing a cost of living crisis, facing NIMBYism to upzone. MaxMind recommended for blocking "bad people" (distinct from bad bots, since bots can typically be mitigated with reCaptcha, but humans aren't, so MaxMind keeps a DB of these things and you can block based on that) high level overview of B+ tree Roasting app made with htmx, makes use of hyperscript, which at the very least is an interesting case study https://github.com/scriptogre/roast-roulette
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