Over the course of 2015, we've been reworking large parts of the Fjord codebase to do the following:

1. ditch jingo and friends and other libraries that deviate from typical Django and aren't active projects
2. reduce complexity by moving closer to a "default/typical Django project"
3. upgrade to Django 1.8

This blog post covers many grueling details including order we did things, design decisions we made and some anecdotes.

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