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EM Eric Matthes • January 25, 2026

I'm curious about the projects people bring to you that were initially deployed to a PAAS. What bottlenecks or breaking points cause people to bring those projects to you for help? For example does it tend to be a steady increase in cost, an increase in complexity with add-ons, or something else? Do you always move those projects to a deployment stack that you know well and are familiar with, or do you try to keep people where they are, but with a cleaner setup?

CS Christian Stefanescu • January 20, 2026

What are your do's and don'ts when starting a new Django project? Without going into specifics of the project, can you share apps you'd use and general best practices like "create your own user model" etc? I understand that your business is based around offering this advice for money, but maybe there are already great blog posts or cookiecutter templates you could point to?

django python best-practices

RR Rinaldo Rex • January 4, 2026

The more I develop applications these days, the more I'm inclined to enable meaningful logging and an observability stack in place as modern web apps tend become more and more complex. What are your insights into some of the common mistakes or some of your tips on the same?

logging observability best-practices

JT Josh Thomas • January 3, 2026

I’ve always been curious, how do you and your team at REVSYS prioritize what to work on? Obviously client work pays the bills, but your team has been heavily involved in the Python and Django community for years, either serving on boards/working groups/committees/etc or helping maintain a myriad of open source libraries and helpful community sites. I figure each person has a certain level of autonomy to prioritize, but do ya'll have something like "10% time" rule or is it more fluid and circumstanstial?

opensource python django revsys

UD Unemployed P. Dev jnr • January 1, 2026

What are tech companies looking for these days that you don't see in job descriptions, and are unlikely to come up in interviews, but still usually looked out for?

UD Unemployed P. Dev jnr • January 1, 2026

Is AI really bringing/brought undeniable doom to Junior web developer roles. If yes, how can one adapt without selling their soul to prompting away all the knowledge they've gathered?

F Farhan • January 1, 2026

Running an development agency vs building own products. Especially with advent of AI how do you see these things changing.

entrepreneurship

RB Robert B. • September 12, 2025

When should I use Django vs Flask vs FastAPI?

SJ Sarah J. • October 14, 2025

I've been struggling with optimizing Django ORM queries for a high-traffic dashboard. We use select_related everywhere, but we are still seeing N+1 issues in some background tasks.

django performance python