Django Chat Understand Django - Matt Layman
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Dec 20, 2023 Django Chat welcomes Matt Layman, Django expert and author of the book 'Understanding Django'. They discuss telemedicine restrictions, scalability of Django monolith, integrating AI in care teams, HIPAA compliance, live coding streams, taking a slow approach in software development, and the benefits of using checklists in programming projects.
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Scaling Telemedicine During COVID
- Matt Layman works in healthcare tech, using Django in telemedicine and billing services in the US.
- He helped scale services during COVID when telemedicine demand surged dramatically.
Complex Provider-Patient Routing
- Telemedicine requires strict routing of providers to patients according to licensing and insurance rules.
- This creates a complex matching problem within their Django app to ensure legal and coverage compliance.
Operating a Huge Django Monolith
- Their Django system is a huge monolith with about 500,000 lines of code supporting high traffic and multiple JSON and REST endpoints.
- It deploys on Kubernetes with Docker containers for scale and supports both EHR systems and member apps.