Operations: The Missing Django Piece with Micah Lyle
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Claim: Operations is an opinionated, lightweight layer that pulls business logic out of models and views into callable units that live in an ops folder or ops.py with a few simple rules. Implementation on about a dozen Django projects and a starter product called Better Base shows it in practice. A case study of an invitation system spans ~1,500 lines of code and a few thousand tests and demonstrates faster comprehension, clearer boundaries, and reliable reuse across views, tasks, and background jobs.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 4:20Django apps over time
- 7:56MVT structure evolves
- 12:59Operations as solution
- 19:50Operations in Django
- 21:54Demo: operations for invitations
- 25:24Summary
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