I gave this talk at Django Bulgaria Meetup, comparing the experience of building a web service in Django (Python) versus Gin (Go) — looking at routing, ORM vs. direct database access, and ecosystem differences.
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The code is available on GitHub.
InfoQ covered my Dev Challenge Accepted talk, where Ben Linders wrote up the key points about what software teams tend to overlook on the way from architecture to shipping.
The piece touches on how oversights happen not from ignorance, but because teams don't think about certain aspects daily — things like metrics, monitoring, and API documentation tend to slip through the cracks. It also covers the challenges of managing coupling with existing codebases, handling compatibility across multiple client versions, and why relying on tribal knowledge instead of documentation is a hidden risk. The broader recommendation is about creating an environment where everyone — product owners, architects, QA — feels safe to raise concerns early, before small gaps compound into bigger problems.
I presented this at Openfest 2023 — a practical look at Python debugging, from print statements and logging to pdb, breakpoints, and IDE debuggers, with code examples in the companion repository.
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The code examples are available on GitHub.
A talk I gave at Dev Challenge Accepted 2023 about the things we often forget or ignore between designing a system and shipping it — the practices, trade-offs, and steps that fall between architecture and release.
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A webinar I gave at the DEV.BG Python user group comparing Python's data validation approaches — Pydantic, Django Forms and jsonschema — with practical examples and a repository to follow along.
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The code examples are available on GitHub.