#518: Celebrating Django's 20th Birthday With Its Creators

Talk Python To Me

Michael Kennedy

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4.8 • 642 Ratings

🗓️ 29 August 2025

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Twenty years after a scrappy newsroom team hacked together a framework to ship stories fast, Django remains the Python web framework that ships real apps, responsibly. In this anniversary roundtable with its creators and long-time stewards: Simon Willison, Adrian Holovaty, Will Vincent, Jeff Triplett, and Thibaud Colas, we trace the path from the Lawrence Journal-World to 1.0, DjangoCon, and the DSF; unpack how a BSD license and a culture of docs, tests, and mentorship grew a global community; and revisit lessons from deployments like Instagram. We talk modern Django too: ASGI and async, HTMX-friendly patterns, building APIs with DRF and Django Ninja, and how Django pairs with React and serverless without losing its batteries-included soul. You’ll hear about Django Girls, Djangonauts, and the Django Fellowship that keep momentum going, plus where Django fits in today’s AI stacks. Finally, we look ahead at the next decade of speed, security, and sustainability.

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0:00.0	20 years after a scrappy newsroom team hacked together a framework to ship stories fast,
0:05.4	Django remains the Python Web framework that ships relapse responsibly.
0:09.5	In this anniversary roundtable with its creators and longtime stewards, Simon Wilson, Adrian
0:14.7	Holavati, Will Vincent, Jeff Triplett, and Teabod Kolis, we trace the path from the Lawrence Journal world to version 1.0,
0:23.5	Django Khan, and the Django Software Foundation.
0:26.1	Unpack how a BSD license and a culture of docs, tests, and mentorship grew a global
0:31.4	community and revisit lessons from deployments like Instagram.
0:35.7	We talk modern Django, too,GI and Async, HTML-friendly
0:39.6	patterns, building APIs with DRF and Django Ninja, and how Django pairs with React and
0:45.5	serverless without losing its batteries included soul. You'll hear about Django Girls, Django
0:50.3	Knots, and the Django Fellowship that keeps momentum momentum going plus where jingo fits in today's
0:55.9	AI stacks finally we look ahead at the next decade of speed security and sustainability for jenko
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