Being a web developer in a small team often involves wearing many hats: systems architect, visual and UX designer, front-end and back-end developer, devops. All these fields are evolving fast and it’s hard to stay up to date with the latest technologies. In this presentation we overview today’s common elements of full web stack and the tools for implementing them in your Django projects. It is aimed at giving web developers an introduction to some recent technologies and their use.

1. Infrastructure of modern web applications
Sergey kopylov

2. Overview
1. design and ux
3. backend web technologies
overview
2. Front-end web technologies
4. deployment

3. Design and UX
design and ux

4. What is User experience?
Personas and use cases
design and ux
User testing

5. Always create mockups first
design and ux

6. Design templates
Bootswatch
design and ux

7. Css preprocessors
Nesting
Sprites
Front-end web technologies
Mixins

8. twitter bootstrap
100s of plugins, widget
and design themes
Front-end web technologies

9. javascript Frameworks
Github stars
17k
20k
DocumentCloud
Google
First release
2010
2009
Data binding
One-way
Two-way
External libraries
(e.g. Mustache.js)
Built-in
Easy to learn
Yes
Could be easier
Easy to integrate with
Django
Yes
It depends
Developer
Templating
Front-end web technologies

10. Data binding in Angular.js
Front-end web technologies

11. backend infrastructure
Infrastructure
External
web services
Web server
Database
Application
environment
Cache
Search
Django
Social
authentication
Analytics
Sending emails
Background
tasks
Error logging
Logging
Payments
backend web technologies

12. Email services
Why you don’t want
to do it yourself
• Deliverability
• Signing email (DKIM, SPF)
• Analytics
Newsletters
backend web technologies
What you should care about
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Get permission before sending emails
Include unsubscribe link
Process bounces
Test in different mail clients
Transactional emails

13. Analytics
Funnels
Segmentation
backend web technologies
Event-based notifications

14. DEPLOYMENT
virtualenv
virtualenvwrapper
fabric
pip
Platform as a service
DjangoEurope.com
Deployment