Becoming an Enterprise Django Developer

Discover best practices, tooling, and solutions for writing and organizing Django applications in production

Michael Dinder




BIRMINGHAM—MUMBAI

Becoming an Enterprise Django Developer

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To my father, Joe Dinder, and uncle, Tom Dinder, who continuously encouraged me throughout the long journey of writing this book, I thank you very much. To my many other friends and family who supported me throughout this journey, thank you very much. To some of my colleagues, past and present, such as Micah Mangione and Adam Straub, and others who are not mentioned, who allowed me to interview them prior to writing this book, thank you for all the knowledge you shared with me. The knowledge they shared helped me to decide which content to include in this book. Thank you very much, everyone!

Contributors

About the author

Michael Dinder works as a senior backend developer at Cart.com, Inc. Michael has helped to develop projects for large enterprises such as PayPal and other companies such as Corcoran Pacific Properties, and countless more either directly or indirectly. He has been programming for more than 15 years with a number of different languages and frameworks, with a focus on Python/Django for the past 5+ years.

About the reviewer

Luca Bezerra has been working with software development for over 12 years across a very diverse set of technologies, be it professionally, as a hobby or during the course of his Master's degree. With experiences ranging from .NET to Unity3D to Python, Luca enjoys finding out about new technologies and the feeling of starting a project from scratch. He also loves to give talks, having presented on DjangoCon US, PyGotham, PyBay, Python Brasil and a few others over the years. Finally, Luca believes bios can sometimes make a paper plane sound like a fighter jet, so he suggests people should read them with a grain of salt.

Python and Django have always held a special place in my heart, so reviewing this book served a personal goal to keep in touch with these technologies. I also feel that the Python community has always been very welcoming and eager to help, so being able to contribute back to it in some way is very rewarding. I'd like to thank Packt for the opportunity and especially the people close to me for enduring my lack of availability during this project.