Fighting Homelessness with Django - Best Practices and Challenges

This conference talk from DjangoCon US 2024 features Benjamin "Zags" Zagorsky sharing how his company built CHAMP, Massachusetts' online application system for state-aided subsidized housing. Learn how Django was implemented to help house thousands of low-income and homeless applicants annually while handling over 10,000 monthly users. Discover practical Django techniques including integration with Vue, performance optimization strategies for high user loads and large data volumes, methods for managing duplicate applications, approaches for replicating gigabytes of data to a data warehouse, techniques for migrating data from 230 organizations, and implementing zero-downtime deployments. The presentation provides valuable insights for developers looking to leverage Django for high-impact social service applications.