In this episode of our Podcast Security Headlines we are joined by
dpaste dot com's founder and creator Paul Bissex.
Dpaste is a pastebin service created in 2006 as Paul's first Django
project.
The website has been running stable ever since, growing more and more
as time goes by resulting in being Django's default paste service.
Paul learned computer programming by copying programs from computer
magazines, he then moved on to creating games and selling them by mail
as many did in the earlier days of personal computing.
Ever since then Paul kept the interests of development and
innovative problem-solving.
As an active community member in various irc channels on Freenode, he
quickly joined the django irc channel in the projects' early days.
And he has happily been running Django ever since.
Today Paul works with a startup accelerator where he gets to
help startup companies develop beta and alpha products using Django!
Thanks to python, being easy to learn and deploy, Django is
a perfect choice for beginners that want to quickly put an application
online.
We got to hear Pauls story on why he created dpaste and how the Django
community has been growing over the years.
Some important key points that we talked about:
Running python in production
The start of django
The success of django
Upgrading Python2 to Python3
Keeping track of python dependencies
Going from php to python
Working with django
Early 2000 webb development
Python's community
Pyramid, soap,
Django released in 2005
Importance of documentation
Niklaus Wirth
modula 2
trs 80, 8 bit computing
Django's culture
Liberation from php
Serving 40 million requests a day with django
The freenode community
Blacklisting django spam
Caching web apps
Python Virtualenv
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External links:
https://blog.firosolutions.com
https://dpaste.com
http://paulbissex.com/portfolio/
https://www.pythonanywhere.com/?affiliate_id=007d4e22
https://twitter.com/pbx
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_(web_framework)
https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio.html
https://realpython.com/async-io-python/
https://www.freebsd.org/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Willison