In this episode of our Podcast *Security Headlines* we are joined by

dpaste dot com's founder and creator Paul Bissex.

Dpaste is a pastebin service created in 2006 as Paul's first Django

project.

The website has been running stable ever since, growing more and more

as time goes by resulting in being Django's default paste service.

Paul learned computer programming by copying programs from computer

magazines, he then moved on to creating games and selling them by mail

as many did in the earlier days of personal computing.

Ever since then Paul kept the interests of development and

innovative problem-solving.

As an active community member in various irc channels on Freenode, he

quickly joined the django irc channel in the projects' early days.

And he has happily been running Django ever since.

Today Paul works with a startup accelerator where he gets to

help startup companies develop beta and alpha products using Django!

Thanks to python, being easy to learn and deploy, Django is

a perfect choice for beginners that want to quickly put an application

online.

We got to hear Pauls story on why he created dpaste and how the Django

community has been growing over the years.

Some important key points that we talked about:

* Running python in production

* The start of django

* The success of django

* Upgrading Python2 to Python3

* Keeping track of python dependencies

* Going from php to python

* Working with django

* Early 2000 webb development

* Python's community

* Pyramid, soap,

* Django released in 2005

* Importance of documentation

* Niklaus Wirth

* modula 2

* trs 80, 8 bit computing

* Django's culture

* Liberation from php

* Serving 40 million requests a day with django

* The freenode community

* Blacklisting django spam

* Caching web apps

* Python Virtualenv

Get comfortable and give listen to Security Headlines dpaste special

External links:

https://blog.firosolutions.com

https://dpaste.com

http://paulbissex.com/portfolio/

https://www.pythonanywhere.com/?affiliate_id=007d4e22

https://twitter.com/pbx

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Django_(web_framework)

https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio.html

https://realpython.com/async-io-python/

https://www.freebsd.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Willison