DjangoCon Europe 2026

Jochen Wersdörfer

Jochen Wersdörfer is a freelance software developer based in Düsseldorf, Germany, with more than 20 years of Python experience. He specializes in Django, data science, and machine learning, and works on systems where architecture must satisfy strict operational constraints. He previously spoke at DjangoCon Europe 2021 and FOSDEM 2025, and co-hosts the German Python Podcast. He works across web and desktop Django deployments, focusing on reliability and maintainability in production environments. He maintains open-source projects including django-cast and regularly writes about practical Django architecture and operations.


Session

04-16
15:15
30min
When SaaS Is Not Allowed: Shipping Django as a Desktop App
Jochen Wersdörfer

What if your Django app cannot rely on servers at all? This talk shows how to package Django inside Electron for confidential, offline, compute-heavy workloads, based on Steel-IQ, an open-source steel-industry simulation tool. You will see a production architecture running across macOS, Windows, and Linux, plus practical lessons from building and running it.

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