Django celebrated it’s 20th birthday this week.
I have been using Django for a long time, definitely since 2006 or so in production. In 2006, I used Django to write a Project Mangement software for Abiba Systems. I customized the django admin backend, and added some dynamic AJAX interactions using Yahoo UI library.
My first tiny contribution to Django was Kannada translation of some core files, IIRC.
The most recent production project I did using Django was at Proofpoint, where I used it to power the backend of the Sensornet collecting data from Suricata IDS participating in Opnsense’s ET Pro Telemetry Program.
Django has been great for me and my career. I have enjoyed many other web frameworks like Zope, web.py, pyramid, Flask etc, but Django is unique in its ability to produce successful products that are (likely) still running.
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Here is a cool talk and blog post by Simon Willison — “Happy 20th birthday Django! Here’s my talk on Django Origins from Django’s 10th” — from 10 years ago.