Django: Getting Started Transcripts
Chapter: Introducing the Django Web Framework
Lecture: Who uses Django?
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It's always nice to be in good company. I suspect you recognize some of these logos.
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Django has been around since 2003 and was originally built by Web programmers at the Lawrence
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Journal World Newspaper in the city of Lawrence Kansas in the United States. They built the framework to help their team build their newspaper's site.
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Five years later, after much success, the Django Software Foundation was created to manage the library and its future work.
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Some of these sites use Django for internal tools and some for their entire site.
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I believe I mentioned earlier that scaling is something Django is good at. You can probably see that here.