Afterthoughts: Django Day Copenhagen 2026

I love developer events; from big conferences to small meetups. Some of them are special to me. Django Day Copenhagen is one of these.

I first attended Django Day Copenhagen in 2023, where I presented Django Prose, our rich-text content editing package for Django. This year, I talked about something quite different; the underlying architecture that makes our new upcoming open source OpenTelemetry server, Fakos (https://fakos.dev) excitingly fast (1,000+ requests/s).

What makes it special though is not what I talk about. This is something I can do anywhere. It's the intimate, curious, positive and friendly atmosphere maintained by everyone. Unfortunately, this time I had to bounce for a few hours, as we are also wrapping up one of the most ambitious and exciting client projects, for which we will hopefully be able to talk about soon. Nevertheless, I was glad to do a deep dive into Django Admin with Marijke Luttekes, learn among other things that there is a built-in utility to generate secrets in Django from Efe Öge (from django.core.management.utils import get_random_secret_key) and go down a rabbit hole about lost days in Samoa (!) and timezones with Denny Biasiolli.

The people of Django Day Copenhagen are in general amazing to spend time with and can provide a lot to learn from. This includes, of course, Ben Balder Bach who has always been an incredible host and offered so much encouragement while we organized DjangoCon Europe 2026 in Athens, this past spring. Thank you, Ben!

You can take a sneak peak of what I previewed for Fakos, our new OpenTelemetry server in the publicly available slide deck and sign up for the early preview at https://fakos.dev!

See you at DjangoCon Europe 2027 in Innsbruck next!