Architecture

Django vs FastAPI: Which Python Developer Should You Hire?

Django or FastAPI? Hiring managers ask this before they have written a single job description, and the honest answer is that the framework matters l…

The Architecture Decision I'd Reverse Today

Boundaries Before Networks The slide was titled "Target Architecture." Five boxes. Five services. Clean arrows between them: Users, Billing, Notific…

Django Tasks vs Celery: Which Should You Use?

Originally published on the Djangix blog: Django Tasks vs Celery: Which Should You Use? Django now has a built-in Tasks framework, which raises a fa…

Django Nova: What Changed When I Put the Library Behind a Public Demo

Cache invalidation, async boundaries, and the work behind novademo.tech . During the deployment of Django Nova’s public demo, the application was al…

GoVueKit vs supastarter vs SaaS Pegasus vs ShipFast: an architecture comparison

People searching for "ShipFast alternative" or "supastarter vs" are rarely asking which kit has more checkboxes. They are asking which architecture…

The Hidden Cost of Django REST Framework Serializers

Your Django REST Framework API can have fast database queries and still be slow. That's one of the most confusing performance problems in Django app…

# The CI/CD Pipeline That Was Lying to Us: A Deploy Debugging Story

I had a GitHub Actions workflow called Deploy to DigitalOcean . It had been sitting in the repo for weeks, fully wired up — SSH action, secrets refe…

Modeling three markets (BR / US / Crypto) with one rebalancing engine

Part of a series on building Balance , a portfolio rebalancing app, as a solo developer. Balance started as a Brazilian-only app: B3 tickers, prices…

How I Handle OAuth2 Token Refresh and Quotas in a Django API Gateway

My first post about Asstgr covered the "what" — a self-hosted gateway that lets you register third-party APIs and call them through one unified inte…

Building an AI Customer Support SaaS with Django, RAG and Self-Hosted LLMs

Building an AI Customer Support SaaS with Django, RAG and Self-Hosted LLMs Over the past several months, I’ve been building AI-Autofy, an AI custome…

How I Wired LHDN's e-Invoice Mandate Into a Multi-Tenant ERP — Without Trusting Any One Path to Do It Alone

I was recently deep in Urusentra, the construction ERP I built solo for Malaysian SMEs, when LHDN's e-Invoice mandate stopped being a "later" proble…

Building a Light API Integration Proxy in Django (Why & How)

Why another API tool? As I built more complex applications, I noticed a pattern: every API has its own auth, rules, and formats. Setting up a full A…

Designing a Gold Jewelry E-Commerce Database with Django

When I accepted a project to build an online gold jewelry store, I thought it would be just another e-commerce platform. Products. Orders. Payments.…

Building SecureTrack: An AI-Powered Cybersecurity Management Platform with React, Django & AI

Cybersecurity is becoming increasingly important as organizations face more security threats every day. Managing vulnerabilities, tracking incidents…

A Small Refresh Bug That Uncovered Security Gaps in My OTP System

The Bug That Started It All It began as a small bug I found myself while testing: OTP verification kept failing whenever I refreshed the page, opene…

The Best Python SaaS Boilerplates in 2024: A Comprehensive Guide

The Best Python SaaS Boilerplates in 2024: A Comprehensive Guide Building a SaaS application from scratch means reinventing the wheel on authenticat…

Building and Deploying a Role-Based Django PWA: From Starter Template to Production

I recently built a full volunteer-opportunity board on top of a Django starter template — complete with role-based accounts, image uploads, a Progre…

What is Django? A Complete Guide to the Django Framework, Benefits, Use Cases & Getting Started

In today's world where websites and web applications play a very important role in businesses, choosing the right tool for developing a project is o…

Building a LINE First Fitness Agent with AI Cost Gates

A Polyglot Feedback Platform: Django, Next.js, and Elixir Working Together

I got tired of Django being left behind in UI, so I built a shadcn/ui equivalent.

For years, the React and Next.js ecosystems have had a massive advantage: premium, plug-and-play UI components. Tools like shadcn/ui completely chan…

How to Prefetch Across GenericForeignKeys When You Can't Change the Schema

You don't always control the schema you work with. Sometimes you inherit a codebase where GenericForeignKey is threaded through the models, and a mi…

Choosing the Right Backend Framework: Django vs. Gin vs. Ruby on Rails.

Every application we use today—from banking apps to social media platforms—has something working behind the scenes. That hidden engine is called the…

DTO, schema, model, entity: почему в коде всё называется User

Один User сначала кажется удобным: его можно принять в запросе, вернуть из API, сохранить в базу и передать дальше. Но со временем такой класс смеши…

Django: History and Trends

Django is a Python development classic that has been helping build and maintain web projects of all scales for two decades. But how does this monoli…

Multi-Agent Systems in Production: When One Agent Isn't Enough and How We Coordinate Them

We built our first "multi-agent system" by accident. What started as a single agent that could research a topic, draft a report, check it against so…

From Feature Delivery to Platform Engineering.

The Problem: Feature Velocity Was Creating Structural Debt The system originally started as a simple feature delivery backend: A Django API powering…

Shipping 12,000+ Lines Across 6 Systems in 19 Days: A Masterclass in Backend Architecture.

What looked like a chaotic sprint was actually a strict exercise in architectural discipline. The last time I published on Dev.to was in late May. A…

How We Optimized a Django Playwright Scraper to Save 60% on Rotating Proxy Bandwidth

As indie hackers and backend developers, we love using modern browser automation frameworks like Playwright to handle heavy, JavaScript-rendered dyn…

Django vs. Flask: Choosing the Right Python Framework for Your Business

The real question isn't which framework is better. It's which one you can stop thinking about six months into the project. Key Takeaways Project Sui…