About this session
Django's default User model is now 20 years old and, in the words of former Django Fellow Carlton Gibson, a "leaky battery." This talk examines the historical basis for User and past efforts to update or replace it. It evaluates current best practices, including custom user models and third-party packages, that support modern user authentication patterns. And it looks forward to future updates to User that support Django's goal of advancing the state of the art in web development.
Presented by
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Will Vincent
Will Vincent is a former Board Member of the Django Software Foundation and the founder of LearnDjango.com. The author of three books on Django, he co-hosts the Django Chat podcast and co-writes the weekly Django News newsletter. Previously, he taught computer science at Williams College and was involved in multiple early-stage startups in Boston and the Bay Area, most notably Quizlet.
