Appearances

Podcasts, interviews, and other appearances I've made over the years.

Podcast January 4, 2026

Talk Python: Web Frameworks in Prod by Their Creators

Framework creators from FastAPI, Flask, Django, Quart, and Litestar discuss practical production deployment strategies. Topics include WSGI vs. ASGI servers, database optimization, async/await patterns, containerization, CDN strategies, background task processing, and framework selection criteria.

Video November 27, 2025

Elephant in the Room: Working with Long Form Text in PostgreSQL and Django

A live series by Aiven exploring real-world challenges developers face when building modern applications on PostgreSQL. In this episode, Jay Miller hosts Jeff Triplett to discuss how developers can harness PostgreSQL’s native text-search capabilities to build faster, smarter, and more efficient applications.

Podcast August 28, 2025

Talk Python: Celebrating Django's 20th Birthday With Its Creators

A panel discussion celebrating Django’s 20th anniversary with co-creators Adrian Holovaty and Simon Willison, along with Will Vincent, Thibaud Colas, and Jeff Triplett. Topics include Django’s origins at the Lawrence Journal-World, the decision to open source, the Django Software Foundation, and the framework’s future.

Podcast May 14, 2024

Django Chat: Funding Open Source - Jeff Triplett

Jeff is a partner at RevSys, a former Director and Vice Chair of the Python Software Foundation, and co-founder/former President of DEFNA. We discuss recent Django third-party packages, djangopackages.org, function-based and class-based views, the current state of Tailwind, and more.

Podcast May 24, 2022

Django Chat: Django 4.1 Preview - Jeff Triplett

Jeff is a partner at RevSys, Python Software Foundation Director, and DjangoCon organizer. We discuss what’s coming in Django 4.1, DjangoCon US 2022, and his work as maintainer of djangopackages.org.

Podcast May 20, 2021

Test and Code: 154 - Don't Mock your Database - Jeff Triplett

You need tests for your web app. And it has a database. What do you do with the database during testing? Should you use the real thing? or mock it? Jeff Triplett says don’t mock it.

In this episode, we talk with Jeff about testing web applications, specifically Django apps, and of course talk about the downsides of database mocking.

Podcast July 30, 2019

Django Chat: Podcast interview [Django Testing - Jeff Triplett

Jeff Triplett is a consultant at REVSYS, a Director of the Python Software Foundation, and President of the Django Events Foundation of North America. We talk about testing Django applications, TDD, and Python/Django community involvement.