Episode 176
Official Django MongoDB Backend - Jib Adegunloye
Jib is a Senior Software Engineer at MongoDB working on the newly-released official Django MongoDB backend. We discuss building out this new support, future plans, and his previous career at Meta.
February 19, 20251h 2m
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Show Notes
- Django MongoDB Backend Repo
- Official Django MongoDB Backend Now Available in Public Preview
- DjangoCon Europe 2025
- Jib’s Blog Post on Developing this Project
- Quickstart dev.to article
- Let’s Switch Things Up: Using MongoDB in an Intro Django Project
- Key Benefits of using MongoDB in Django
- MongoDB documentation on getting started with Django
- django-simple-deploy repo
- lithium Starter Project
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