Django Unleashed

Preface

In early 2013, a startup in Austin, Texas, approached me to work on a banking application using Django. My experience with Django was limited: I had tried to use the tool in 2009 but felt that the learning curve was steep. I wanted to give Django a try but did not have enough time to learn how to use it given the project’s time constraints (which was fine: we were forced to use PHP anyway). When I looked at Django again in 2013, I discovered that it had become far more accessible. For certain, those four years had seen Django improve by leaps and bounds. However, I had also gained key knowledge working with web frameworks.

At the end of the project in 2013, I was asked by a different group to take what I had learned and teach its engineers ...