DjangoCon Europe starts soon. PyCon Africa talks now live
Tags: django, python, djangocon, pyconafrica
Published: 2020-09-18 19:51:00

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title: DjangoCon Europe starts soon. PyCon Africa talks now live
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date: 2020-09-17 16:00:00 UTC
tags: django, python, djangocon, pyconafrica
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## News

### [Python Software Foundation News: Noah Alorwu Awarded the PSF Community Service Award for Q2 2020](https://cur.at/4rIxeKT?m=rss)

Noah Alorwu, software developer and co-founder of DjangoCon Africa has been awarded the Python Software Foundation 2020 Q2 Community Service Award.

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### [Pip: Buy a feature](https://cur.at/QAoCHFV?m=rss)

The Pip team wants your input on a survey to figure out what is most important to you.

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## Events

### [DjangoCon Europe 2020](https://cur.at/HAftPoZ?m=rss)

DjangoCon Europe kicks off September 18th. Tickets are still available for €29.00 and €79.00 for anyone who wants to support DjangoCon Europe and attend virtually!

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## Articles

### [r2c blog — Not all attacks are equal: understanding and preventing DoS in web applications](https://cur.at/uBH65XX?m=rss)

From Django co-creator Jacob Kaplan-Moss, a guide to understanding and preventing Denial of Service (DoS) attacks.

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### [How to Unit Test a Django Management Command - Adam Johnson](https://cur.at/HKFjGYw?m=rss)

[Management commands](https://cur.at/X9aZKZD?m=rss) are an extremely useful feature in Django, but can be difficult to test. Adam Johnson demonstrates how to do so.

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### [Is Django a Full Stack Framework?](https://cur.at/IMthiEF?m=rss)

An overview of back-end vs front-end frameworks and where Django sits in the mix.

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## Videos

### [PyCon Africa 2020 - YouTube](https://cur.at/6vHZQwE?m=rss)

All the videos from PyCon Africa 2020 in a YouTube playlist.

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### [Serving Deep Neural Networks through Django - Psalms Kalu || PyCon Africa 2020](https://cur.at/g5H1lxC?m=rss)

A hands-on workshop session in which we will build a simple deep neural network from scratch using Keras and deploy it into a Django project so that users visiting our website can supply data which our model can make predictions from.

{% youtube TwJFVqF7XF8 %}

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### [Tairu Oluwafemi - Building production worthy websites with Django || PyCon Africa 2020 - YouTube](https://cur.at/Q39zwyt?m=rss)

What to focus on when building an app for deployment to any cloud hosting platform, notably security, usability, query optimization, and scalability.

{% youtube HS6ykg41Fq4 %}

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### [Turn Django admin into a lightweight dashboard - Thomas Ayih-Akakpo || PyCon Africa 2020 - YouTube](https://cur.at/oBIUjmT?m=rss)

Use Django's ORM to create useful summary tables and a few charts in the admin.

{% youtube _IeWyFvqp9o %}

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### [How to build a simple Twitter clone using Django and Vue.js (3 hours +)](https://cur.at/nQprNHY?m=rss)

From Code With Stein, a comprehensive tutorial.

{% youtube GClIzqdYNr0 %}

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## Podcasts

### [Django Chat - Django Community Survey](https://cur.at/KdT6wkv?m=rss)

We’re back after a few weeks away! We discuss the Django Community Survey results, virtual conferences taking place, upcoming Django Technical Board vote, and more.

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### [Running in Production - Social Hiring Platform for the Food and Beverage Industry](https://cur.at/3P5eJZm?m=rss)

[NdustryLink](https://cur.at/hLae9kO?m=rss) is a social hiring platform for the food and beverage industry. It’s built with Django, hosted on Heroku, and took about 9 months of full time development to build as a solo developer.

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### [Django Riffs - Administering Your App](https://cur.at/iLVf2R7?m=rss)

A look at Django's built-in admin app and how to manage your data within it.

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## Projects

{% github jsocol/django-ratelimit %}

> Cache-based rate-limiting for Django.

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{% github django-dbbackup/django-dbbackup %}

> Management commands to help backup and restore your project database and media files.

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{% github saxix/django-adminactions %}

Collection of useful django actions to use with ModelAdmin or AdminSite.