Django

Posts on Django — Python’s most batteries-included web framework. Whether you’re new to Django (start with the Django Conquered series ) or shipping it to production, you’ll find practical, opinionated writing here on the ORM, the admin, REST APIs with DRF, deployment, and everything in between.

Django ORM Async in 2026 — What Works, What Bites, and the Patterns That Stuck

Practical Django async ORM: aget / acreate / aupdate, transaction.atomic in async, async-safe context, and migration from sync code.

Django Channels & WebSockets in 2026 — Real-Time Without Tears

Practical Django Channels: consumer design, auth in WebSocket connections, channel layers via Redis, scaling, and where to reach for ASGI alternatives.

Django + Celery in 2026 — Background Jobs Without the Footguns

Production Django + Celery: task signatures, idempotency, retry strategies, beat scheduling, monitoring, and how to avoid the lost-job class of bugs.

Django 5 Async — Views, ORM, and Channels in 2026

How async Django actually works in 2026 — async views, the async ORM, sync_to_async/async_to_sync gotchas, ASGI deployment with Daphne/Uvicorn, and where Channels still earns its keep.

Django vs FastAPI: Which One Should You Pick in 2026?

An opinionated, side-by-side comparison of Django and FastAPI covering philosophy, features, performance, and when to pick each (or both).

Deploying Django to Production: A Pragmatic Checklist

An end-to-end guide to deploying Django to production: app server, reverse proxy, database, static files, env config, security hardening, and what to monitor.

Building a REST API with Django REST Framework: A Practical Tutorial

End-to-end DRF tutorial — build a real CRUD API with serializers, viewsets, JWT auth, permissions, filtering, and pagination.

Django ORM Deep Dive: QuerySets, N+1, and Making the Database Behave

Everything I wish I’d known about the Django ORM earlier — how querysets really work, the N+1 problem, select_related vs prefetch_related, and the patterns that keep production code fast.

Django Conquered: Project Setup and Anatomy

A guided walkthrough of installing Django, scaffolding a project, registering an app, and understanding what every generated file is for.

Django Conquered: What is Django?

A tour of Django’s origin story, its ‘batteries included’ philosophy, the headline features, and where it shines (and where it doesn’t).