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Transitioning from PHP to Django on the sly

Summary

You know that Python and Django is the way forward for your client, but with a mountain of legacy PHP code, where do you start?

Ben spent the last 3 years working with a thriving charity organisation to migrate their large PHP system to Django. He'd like to share some survival strategies.

This talk covers:

  • explaining the transition to your client
  • first steps and initial experiments
  • running PHP and Django in parallel
  • why incremental migration beats the "big switch"
  • sharing databases and authentication
  • making the experience seamless for visitors and staff
  • strategies for converting the code

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