Anna Callahan - South: stable and databas­e-independent migrations
Channel: Chris Ball
Date: 2013-09-27

Slides - http://www.slideshare.net/jazztpt/south-talk

Talk given to Django Boston Meetup on 2013-09-26.

The South migration package is about to become part of Django proper -- and it's about time!  South is a must-have tool for keeping your database updated.

This talk will introduce South, cover the basics, and dive into a few more advanced uses.  In addition to a well-rounded intro, we'll cover: schema migrations, data migrations, and rolling back; how South deals with model inheritance; and shortcuts to hairy data migrations like moving models from one app to another.

Anna Callahan is a Django and iOS developer.  She is the founder and CTO of ZoomTilt (Django); did iOS development at Raizlabs; was a Python and Rails programmer at 3M; and considers herself lucky to no longer be programming in C++ and PHP.