February 03, 2026

#468 A bolt of Django

31 minutes

Topics covered in this episode:

django-bolt: Faster than FastAPI, but with Django ORM, Django Admin, and Django packages

pyleak

More Django (three articles)

Datastar

Extras

Joke

Watch on YouTube

About the show

Sponsored by us! Support our work through:

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The Complete pytest Course

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Brian #1: django-bolt : Faster than FastAPI, but with Django ORM, Django Admin, and Django packages

Farhan Ali Raza

High-Performance Fully Typed API Framework for Django

Inspired by DRF, FastAPI, Litestar, and Robyn

Django-Bolt docs

Interview with Farhan on Django Chat Podcast

And a walkthrough video

Michael #2: pyleak

Detect leaked asyncio tasks, threads, and event loop blocking with stack trace in Python. Inspired by goleak.

Has patterns for

Context managers

decorators

Checks for

Unawaited asyncio tasks

Threads

Blocking of an asyncio loop

Includes a pytest plugin so you can do @pytest.mark.no_leaks

Brian #3: More Django (three articles)

Migrating From Celery to Django Tasks

Paul Taylor

Nice intro of how easy it is to get started with Django Tasks

Some notes on starting to use Django

Julia Evans

A handful of reasons why Django is a great choice for a web framework

less magic than Rails

a built-in admin

nice ORM

automatic migrations

nice docs

you can use sqlite in production

built in email

The definitive guide to using Django with SQLite in production

I’m gonna have to study this a bit.

The conclusion states one of the benefits is “reduced complexity”, but, it still seems like quite a bit to me.

Michael #4: Datastar

Sent to us by Forrest Lanier

Lots of work by Chris May

Out on Talk Python soon.

Official Datastar Python SDK

Datastar is a little like HTMX, but

The single source of truth is your server

Events can be sent from server automatically (using SSE)

e.g

yield SSE.patch_elements(

f"""{datetime.now().isoformat()}"""

)

Why I switched from HTMX to Datastar article

Extras

Brian:

Django Chat: Inverting the Testing Pyramid - Brian Okken

Quite a fun interview

PEP 686 – Make UTF-8 mode default

Now with status “Final” and slated for Python 3.15

Michael:

Prayson Daniel’s Paper tracker

Ice Cubes (open source Mastodon client for macOS)

Rumdl for PyCharm, et. al

cURL Gets Rid of Its Bug Bounty Program Over AI Slop Overrun

Python Developers Survey 2026

Joke: Pushed to prod

...more

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February 03, 2026

#468 A bolt of Django

31 minutes

Topics covered in this episode:

django-bolt: Faster than FastAPI, but with Django ORM, Django Admin, and Django packages

pyleak

More Django (three articles)

Datastar

Extras

Joke

Watch on YouTube

About the show

Sponsored by us! Support our work through:

Our courses at Talk Python Training

The Complete pytest Course

Patreon Supporters

Connect with the hosts

Michael: @[email protected] / @mkennedy.codes (bsky)

Brian: @[email protected] / @brianokken.bsky.social

Show: @[email protected] / @pythonbytes.fm (bsky)

Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Monday at 11am PT. Older video versions available there too.

Finally, if you want an artisanal, hand-crafted digest of every week of the show notes in email form? Add your name and email to our friends of the show list, we'll never share it.

Brian #1: django-bolt : Faster than FastAPI, but with Django ORM, Django Admin, and Django packages

Farhan Ali Raza

High-Performance Fully Typed API Framework for Django

Inspired by DRF, FastAPI, Litestar, and Robyn

Django-Bolt docs

Interview with Farhan on Django Chat Podcast

And a walkthrough video

Michael #2: pyleak

Detect leaked asyncio tasks, threads, and event loop blocking with stack trace in Python. Inspired by goleak.

Has patterns for

Context managers

decorators

Checks for

Unawaited asyncio tasks

Threads

Blocking of an asyncio loop

Includes a pytest plugin so you can do @pytest.mark.no_leaks

Brian #3: More Django (three articles)

Migrating From Celery to Django Tasks

Paul Taylor

Nice intro of how easy it is to get started with Django Tasks

Some notes on starting to use Django

Julia Evans

A handful of reasons why Django is a great choice for a web framework

less magic than Rails

a built-in admin

nice ORM

automatic migrations

nice docs

you can use sqlite in production

built in email

The definitive guide to using Django with SQLite in production

I’m gonna have to study this a bit.

The conclusion states one of the benefits is “reduced complexity”, but, it still seems like quite a bit to me.

Michael #4: Datastar

Sent to us by Forrest Lanier

Lots of work by Chris May

Out on Talk Python soon.

Official Datastar Python SDK

Datastar is a little like HTMX, but

The single source of truth is your server

Events can be sent from server automatically (using SSE)

e.g

yield SSE.patch_elements(

f"""{datetime.now().isoformat()}"""

)

Why I switched from HTMX to Datastar article

Extras

Brian:

Django Chat: Inverting the Testing Pyramid - Brian Okken

Quite a fun interview

PEP 686 – Make UTF-8 mode default

Now with status “Final” and slated for Python 3.15

Michael:

Prayson Daniel’s Paper tracker

Ice Cubes (open source Mastodon client for macOS)

Rumdl for PyCharm, et. al

cURL Gets Rid of Its Bug Bounty Program Over AI Slop Overrun

Python Developers Survey 2026

Joke: Pushed to prod

...more

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