#468 A bolt of Django

Topics covered in this episode:

• django-bolt: Faster than FastAPI, but with Django ORM, Django Admin, and Django packages
• pyleak
• More Django (three articles)
• Datastar
• Extras
• Joke

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Brian #1: django-bolt : Faster than FastAPI, but with Django ORM, Django Admin, and Django packages

• Farhan Ali Raza
• High-Performance Fully Typed API Framework for Django
• Inspired by DRF, FastAPI, Litestar, and Robyn
• Django-Bolt docs
• Interview with Farhan on Django Chat Podcast
• And a walkthrough video

Michael #2: pyleak

• Detect leaked asyncio tasks, threads, and event loop blocking with stack trace in Python. Inspired by goleak.
• Has patterns for
  • Context managers
  • decorators
• Checks for
  • Unawaited asyncio tasks
  • Threads
  • Blocking of an asyncio loop
  • Includes a pytest plugin so you can do @pytest.mark.no_leaks

Brian #3: More Django (three articles)

• Migrating From Celery to Django Tasks
  • Paul Taylor
  • Nice intro of how easy it is to get started with Django Tasks
• Some notes on starting to use Django
  • Julia Evans
  • A handful of reasons why Django is a great choice for a web framework
    • less magic than Rails
    • a built-in admin
    • nice ORM
    • automatic migrations
    • nice docs
    • you can use sqlite in production
    • built in email
  • The definitive guide to using Django with SQLite in production
    • I’m gonna have to study this a bit.
    • The conclusion states one of the benefits is “reduced complexity”, but, it still seems like quite a bit to me.

Michael #4: Datastar

• Sent to us by Forrest Lanier

• Lots of work by Chris May

• Out on Talk Python soon.

• Official Datastar Python SDK

• Datastar is a little like HTMX, but

  • The single source of truth is your server

  • Events can be sent from server automatically (using SSE)

    • e.g

    yield SSE.patch_elements(
                f"""<span id="currentTime">{datetime.now().isoformat()}"""
            )
    

• Why I switched from HTMX to Datastar article

Extras

Brian:

• Django Chat: Inverting the Testing Pyramid - Brian Okken
  • Quite a fun interview
• PEP 686 – Make UTF-8 mode default
  • Now with status “Final” and slated for Python 3.15

Michael:

• Prayson Daniel’s Paper tracker
• Ice Cubes (open source Mastodon client for macOS)
• Rumdl for PyCharm, et. al
• cURL Gets Rid of Its Bug Bounty Program Over AI Slop Overrun
• Python Developers Survey 2026

Joke: Pushed to prod