> htmx ~ Building Critical Infrastructure with htmx: Network Automation for the Paris 2024 Olympics

A network engineer shares their experience building critical network automation infrastructure for the Paris 2024 Olympics using htmx and Django. The project, initially estimated at 18 months, was completed in 9 months by leveraging htmx's server-side rendering approach instead of SPAs. The simplified, procedural codebase with clear data flow proved easier to maintain and unexpectedly effective for AI-assisted development, with LLMs successfully generating 80-95% correct code for subsequent features by extrapolating from existing functions. The same application was later reused for Tour de France 2025 with minimal modifications.