My 5 Favorite Talks at DjangoCon Europe 2019
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Published: 2019-05-04 08:55:55

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This year DjangoCon Europe happened in Copenhagen, Denmark, at a very creative and special place [AFUK - Academy for Untamed Creativity](http://www.afuk.dk/). Surrounded by artistic souls, we learned more about web technologies, got to know each other at ecologic reusable disposable cups of coffee, enjoyed delicious authentic food, and socialized with Django-branded beverages. As always, there was also a party with people drinking IPA (not to be confused with API). And at the weekend Django developers were solving bugs for Django and related open-source software at the coding sprints.

 

Here I would like to present you with the top 5 talks that I liked most of all.

 
## Django and Web Security Headers
 

Adam Johnson ([@AdamChainz](https://twitter.com/AdamChainz)) was talking about special response headers that tell browsers to treat data of the website more securely and which Django settings are responsible for those headers.

[![Video record](https://img.youtube.com/vi/gvQW1vVNohg/0.jpg)](https://youtu.be/gvQW1vVNohg)

[Summary by rixx](https://rixx.de/blog/djangocon-europe-2019-django-and-web-security-headers/)

 
## Docs or it didn't Happen!
 

Mikey Ariel ([@ThatDocsLady](https://twitter.com/ThatDocsLady)) was talking about the necessity of documentation and what to write there.

[![Video record](https://img.youtube.com/vi/gwVxNHO9Lh0/0.jpg)](https://youtu.be/gwVxNHO9Lh0)

[Summary by rixx](https://rixx.de/blog/djangocon-europe-2019-docs-or-it-didn-t-happen-with-q-a/)

 
## Pushing the ORM to its Limits
 

Sigurd Ljødal ([@sigurdlj](https://twitter.com/sigurdlj)) was talking about advanced Django ORM use cases.

[![Video record](https://img.youtube.com/vi/MPpPu6c8wsM/0.jpg)](https://youtu.be/MPpPu6c8wsM)

[Summary by rixx](https://rixx.de/blog/djangocon-europe-2019-pushing-the-orm-to-its-limits/)

 
## Logging Rethought 2: The Actions of Frank Taylor Jr.
 

Markus Holtermann ([@m\_holtermann](https://twitter.com/m_holtermann)) was talking about logging structured data to log files instead of the traditional plain text messages.

[![Video record](https://img.youtube.com/vi/Y5eyEgyHLLo/0.jpg)](https://youtu.be/Y5eyEgyHLLo)

[Summary by rixx](https://rixx.de/blog/djangocon-europe-2019-logging-rethought-2-the-actions-of-frank-taylor-jr/)

 
## Maintaining a Django Codebase after 10k Commits
 

Joachim Jablon ([@Ewjoachim](https://twitter.com/Ewjoachim)) and Stéphane Angel ([@twidi](https://twitter.com/twidi)) were talking about the best practices developing large-scale Django projects.

[![Video record](https://img.youtube.com/vi/_DIlE-yc9ZQ/0.jpg)](https://youtu.be/_DIlE-yc9ZQ)

[Summary by rixx](https://rixx.de/blog/djangocon-europe-2019-maintaning-a-django-codebase-after-10k-commits/)

 
## Honorable Mentions
 
- ["Feeding the Pony: Contributing back to Django & How to make that work for you"](https://2019.djangocon.eu/talks/feeding-the-pony-contributing-back-to-django-how-t/) by Carlton Gibson.
- ["Sketching out a Django redesign"](https://2019.djangocon.eu/talks/sketching-out-a-django-redesign/) by Tom Christie.
- ["Reduce, Reuse, Recycle - Persisting WebSocket connections with SharedWorkers"](https://2019.djangocon.eu/talks/reduce-reuse-recycle-persisting-websocket-connecti/) by Aaronn Bassett.
- ["Maps with GeoDjango, PostGIS and Leaflet"](https://2019.djangocon.eu/talks/maps-with-geodjango-postgis-and-leaflet/) by Paolo Melchiorre.
- ["Here Come The Robots - Django and Machine Learning"](https://2019.djangocon.eu/talks/here-come-the-robots-django-and-machine-learning/) by Tom Dyson.
 
## More Information
 

You can see all talk descriptions, video records and some slides at the [official conference website](https://2019.djangocon.eu/talks/).

 

[Amazing conference photos](https://www.flickr.com/photos/djangocon/sets/72157704663920022) were taken by Bartek Pawlik.

 

I was also really astonished how effective were [the talk summaries written by rixx](https://duckduckgo.com/?sites=https%3A%2F%2Frixx.de%2F&k8=%23444444&k9=%23D51920&kt=h&q=DjangoCon+Europe+2019&ia=web) almost in real time.

 
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Cover photo by [Bartek Pawlik](https://www.flickr.com/photos/djangocon/sets/72157704663920022).

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