DjangoCon US 2025 Topics Inspiration List

Published April 19, 2025

Disclaimer: the content of this post is a reflection of my career journey and not specific to my work at JPMorganChase & Co.

New Features and Future Outlook

  • New Django features

  • New Python features of interest to Django devs

  • Django Fellow/Steering Council roadmap for the future

  • Update on Accessibility Team work

Django Software Foundation

  • DSF News

  • Update on workgroups structure and opportunities

  • Django Developer Survey results

Diversity

  • Where we stand in bringing more diversity to: our steering council, core dev, contributor base, community

Interesting Django Use Cases and Case Studies

  • Lessons from managing/scaling Django in a unique or difficult way in your company

  • Lesser known architectures and patterns, when to use, tradeoffs: GoF applied to Python/Django, clean code principles, domain driven design, hexagonal architecture, etc.

  • Refactoring (Martin Fowler, Kent Beck, Michael Feathers in practice)

  • Orchestration/workflows

  • Multi-tenancy

API

  • Django Ninja compared to Django Rest Framework

Highly Resilient, Large Scale Systems

  • Django and Distributed System Design

  • Lessons in resiliency and failover

Database and Caching

  • Database/Django performance tuning at scale

  • Database tradeoffs: Postgres, CockroachDB, SQL, etc.

  • Tools growing in popularity: Valkey, Neo4j, etc.

AI

  • Django and AI use cases

  • Co-Pilot, ChatGPT, etc. for Django devs

Raising Your Game

  • Advanced deep dives

  • Lesser known, but highly useful Django features

  • Practical Django profiling, optimization

  • Security (OWASP 10 and Django)

  • Developments in testing

  • Production-ready async

  • What tools I haven’t heard about, but would want to know about

Opinionated Django

  • Django deployment options and tradeoffs in 2025

  • The best tools/packages to have in your Django toolbox in 2025

  • Favorite workflows, Git, CI/CD, GitHub Actions, local/prod, developer experience tools, etc.

  • HTML over the Wire and ecosystem (HTMX, Alpine, Svelte, Tailwind)

Using Django for social good

  • Improved efficiency case studies

  • Reducing carbon footprint

How to Use Popular CMS

  • Wagtail

  • Butter CMS

Python Packaging and Open Source

  • New developments in Python/Django packaging landscape

Novel Uses for Django

  • Experimental apps

  • Prototyping with Django for fun and profit

  • Your interesting Django story/adventure

  • Django for entrepreneurs

Team, Leadership, Building

  • Lessons from software engineering management

  • Product management (features, prioritization, OKRs, teamwork, etc.)

  • Interesting mental models, productivity methods, learning approaches, the counter-intuitive

For even more ideas, see posts by DEFNA Board Member Drew Winstel, former DEFNA Board Member and current Django Steering Council Member Tim Schilling, and DSF Board Member Abigail (Afi) Gbadago.