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Calvin Hendryx-Parker, Six Feet Up’s CTO and AWS Community Hero, presented a 10-minute Thunder Talk on “Hacking Django Channels for Fun (and Profit)” at PyOhio — a non-profit annual Python community conference.

In his talk, Calvin highlighted how web developers can leverage Django channels in unconventional ways, including:

• how to use websockets with Django’s async event loops — including a live demo of how Slack is integrated in a virtual event platform, LoudSwarm by Six Feet Up; and
• how to hack background workers to connect to remote services like Discord — including an explanation of how integrating Slack into LoudSwarm differs from integrating Discord which requires Django to talk to both Discord and the client over websockets.

Watch the talk

Read how Six Feet Up’s team of expert developers hacked Django channels for LoudSwarm by Six Feet Up — and learn how to do it yourself — in this blog.

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