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Django Chat
Understand Django - Matt Layman
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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- Using simple platforms as a service for personal projects, like Heroku, while opting for Docker for larger-scale projects at work.
- The challenging process of writing and editing the book Understanding Django, involving building a toolchain, working with beta readers, and overcoming exhaustion and delays.
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Personal and Professional Deployment Preferences
For personal projects, Matt prefers using simple platforms as a service (PaaS) like Heroku to keep things easy and eliminate the need for extensive setup and management. However, for larger-scale projects at work, he leans towards using Docker to handle deployment due to its benefits for collaboration and scaling.
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