18th Oct
2023
Who put me in charge? Moving beyond day-to-day coding in Django
DjangoCon US
Durham, NC, United States of America
45 minutes, Panel
Speaking
I've been doing public speaking since 2008, and from my initial origins doing talks to local user groups, I now regularly present technical talks and keynotes at a range of international conferences. If you'd like to invite me to speak at your conference, you can email me at andrew@aeracode.org.
I talk on a variety of topics, as you can see below - if you are interested in a talk, please contact me and I'll be happy to discuss what fits best! I particularly enjoy talking about software maintenance, architecture, safety, GIS, and the social side of software engineering.
All of my past and future talks, keynotes, panel appearances and tutorials are collected below, including links to slides and videos if they exist.
Past 89 talks
22nd Apr
2023
Reconciling Everything
PyCon US
Salt Lake City, United States of America
Slides 30 minutes
19th Oct
2022
The State Of Django Panel
DjangoCon US
San Diego, United States of America
Video 30 minutes, Panel
18th Oct
2022
Django Through The Years
DjangoCon US
San Diego, United States of America
25th Aug
2022
Writing Maintainable Software At Scale
PyCon Estonia
Tallinn, Estonia
Slides 50 minutes, Keynote
12th Jul
2021
A Newcomer's Guide To Airflow's Architecture
Airflow Summit
Online
7th Feb
2020
The Scientist And The Engineer
PyCon Colombia
Medellín, Colombia
23rd Sep
2019
Just Add Await: Retrofitting Async Into Django
DjangoCon US
San Diego, CA, United States of America
2nd Aug
2019
Just Add Await: Retrofitting Async Into Django
DjangoCon Australia
Sydney, Australia
3rd May
2019
Terrain, Art, Python and LiDAR
PyCon US
Cleveland, OH, United States of America
6th Oct
2018
Taking Django Async
PyCon ES
Málaga, Spain
30 minutes
31st Aug
2018
Taming Terrain: Sculping geoscapes from LiDAR
Electromagnetic Field
Ledbury, United Kingdom
4th Jun
2018
You Have Control: Learning From Aviation
PyCon Israel
Tel Aviv, Israel
11th May
2018
Taking Django Async
PyCon US
Cleveland, OH, United States of America
25th Apr
2018
Distributed Failure: Learning From Aviation
Code Europe
Wrocław, Poland
Slides 50 minutes
23rd Apr
2018
Distributed Failure: Learning From Aviation
Code Europe
Warsaw, Poland
Slides 50 minutes
16th Aug
2017
Taking Django Distributed
DjangoCon US
Spokane, WA, United States of America
Talking about strategies and downsides of splitting up Django-based sites into separate services, including the pros and cons of services versus monoliths.
5th Aug
2017
Scaling Down (Running Large Sites Locally)
PyCon AU
Melbourne, Australia
Walking through Eventbrite's development environment tool Bay, and how it's designed to run complex systems on a single machine.
4th Aug
2017
Horrors of Distributed Systems
DjangoCon AU
Melbourne, Australia
Stepping through some of the myriad ways in which systems can fail that programmers don't expect, and how this hostile environment affects the design of distributed systems.
10th Jun
2017
Building for Failure: Learning lessons from aviation
PyCon Taiwan
Taipei, Taiwan
Comparing and contrasting the approaches of aviation and software engineering to failure, and how we can learn from their approaches.
Slides 45 minutes, Keynote
7th Apr
2017
Scaling Django with Distributed Systems
PyCon Ukraine
Lviv, Ukraine
Looking at the basic tradeoffs and design principles involved in building distributed systems and specifically in storing data in them.
3rd Apr
2017
Services, Architecture & Channels
DjangoCon Europe
Florence, Italy
Looking at service-oriented architecture principles, designs, and how the underlying components of the Django Channels framework can be used to build them.
3rd Nov
2016
Channels (Under The Hood)
Django Under The Hood
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Taking a deep dive into the Channels codebase and software design, and looking at how it's built (and why!)
20th Aug
2016
Django, Channels, and Distributed Systems
PyBay
San Francisco, CA, United States of America
Discussing the basic design of Channels, including the decisions made in its development, and some basic examples of implementation. (Partial rework of "Reinventing Django for the Real-Time Web")
12th Aug
2016
Reinventing Django for the Real-Time Web
DjangoCon AU
Portland, OR, United States of America
Discussing the basic design of Channels, including the decisions made in its development, and some basic examples of implementation.
19th Jul
2016
Architecting with Channels
DjangoCon US
Philadelphia, PA, United States of America
30th May
2016
Reinventing Django for the Real-Time Web
PyCon US
Portland, OR, United States of America
Discussing the basic design of Channels, including the decisions made in its development, and some basic examples of implementation.
31st Mar
2016
A Brief History of Channels
DjangoCon Europe
Budapest, Hungary
9th Mar
2016
Django And This Thing Called Channels
Python SF Meetup
San Francisco, CA, United States of America
28th Jan
2016
Developing Eventbrite with Docker
Django SF Meetup
San Francisco, CA, United States of America
7th Sep
2015
Dubious Database Design
DjangoCon US
Austin, TX, United States of America
19th Jun
2015
The Perils of Software Engineering
PyCon Singapore
Singapore, Singapore
17th Jun
2015
Datastores, Python And You
PyCon Singapore
Singapore, Singapore
240 minutes, Tutorial
26th May
2015
Small Data: Storage for the Rest Of Us
PyWaw Summit
Warsaw, Poland
10th Apr
2015
What can programmers learn from pilots?
PyCon US
Montreal, Canada
My first talk comparing and contrasting the approaches of the aviation community to safety with that of most software engineers, and examining where the two might meet.
14th Nov
2014
Migrations Under The Hood
Django Under The Hood
Amsterdam, Netherlands
5th Oct
2014
A Brief History of Django 1.7
BarCamp Django SF
San Francisco, CA, United States of America
45 minutes
5th Oct
2014
Learning To Fly
BarCamp Django SF
San Francisco, CA, United States of America
45 minutes
3rd Sep
2014
Digging Into Django's Migrations
DjangoCon US
Portland, OR, United States of America
4th Aug
2014
Small Data: Databases in the Real World
PyCon AU
Brisbane, Australia
15th May
2014
Good Schema Design and Why It Matters
DjangoCon Europe
Ile des Embiez, France
30th Apr
2014
Django 1.7 and You
Django SF Meetup
San Francisco, CA, United States of America
10th Apr
2014
API Design at Eventbrite
PyCon US
Montreal, Canada
Part of a larger Eventbrite "Advanced Django" workshop.
Slides 45 minutes, Tutorial
10th Apr
2014
Moving Lanyrd: Changing Database and Datacentre
PyCon US
Montreal, Canada
Part of a larger Eventbrite "Advanced Django" workshop.
Slides 45 minutes, Tutorial
8th Feb
2014
Django 1.6 & 1.7
Django Weekend Cardiff
Cardiff, United Kingdom
18th Oct
2013
Rapid Schema Development with PostgreSQL
All Your Base Conference
Oxford, United Kingdom
4th Sep
2013
Everybody Loves Migrations
DjangoCon US
Portland, OR, United States of America
6th Sep
2012
Models and Migrations and Schemas - oh my!
DjangoCon US
Washington, DC, United States of America
8th Sep
2011
Deployment, Daemons and Datacenters
DjangoCon US
Portland, OR, United States of America
20th Jul
2011
Building a hosting platform with Python
EuroPython
Florence, Italy
Discussing the design and implementation of my PaaS ep.io
7th Jul
2011
Core Developers Panel
DjangoCon Europe
Amsterdam, Netherlands
9th Feb
2011
Spacelog (part one)
Oxford Geek Night
Oxford, United Kingdom
A combined talk about Spacelog.org with James Aylett
8th Sep
2010
Step Away From That Database
DjangoCon US
Portland, OR, United States of America
Video 40 minutes
17th Feb
2010
Snowtime at Torchbox
Oxford Geek Night 16
Oxford, United Kingdom
Lightning talk about our internet-powered snow machine
5 minutes
8th Sep
2009
Database Migrations, South, And You
DjangoCon US
Portland, OR, United States of America
25th Mar
2009
GIS us a Django
Oxford Geek Night 11
Oxford, United Kingdom
A lightning talk about WhoseTurf
Slides 5 minutes
8th Sep
2008
Schema Evolution Panel
DjangoCon US
Mountain View, CA, United States of America
Combination panel and short talks about schema evolution/migrations.
25th Jun
2008
Killing Servers With Music Graphing
Oxford Geek Night 7
Oxford, United Kingdom
Lightning talk about LastGraph
Slides 5 minutes