Architecture

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, opened …

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 authenticatio…

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 Progress…

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 of …

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 change…

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 migr…

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 b…

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 смешива…

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 monolith…

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 sour…

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 a…

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. At …

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 dynam…

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 Suita…

🚀 Why I Love Building Modern Web Apps with Django + HTMX + Alpine.js

Web development has become very powerful, but also very complicated. Today many projects start with a frontend framework, API endpoints, state managem…

Your Django App Has Years of Data. Here's How to Make AI Agents Actually Use It.

The Problem Every Django Developer Knows You have a Django app with years of data — products, articles, orders, users. Your users type natural languag…

Building a Real-Time Chat Feature with Django Channels and React

Building a Real-Time Chat Feature with Django Channels and React Real-time features have become table stakes for modern web applications. Whether it i…

Why Most Django Boilerplates Are Insecure by Default

You found a Django boilerplate on GitHub. It has 2k stars, a clean README, Docker support, and a Makefile. You clone it, rename a few things, push to …

Deploying Cookiecutter Django on DigitalOcean (Ubuntu 24.04 (LTS) x64)

A no-fluff deployment runbook for getting a Cookiecutter Django project live on DigitalOcean using Docker and Traefik. Covers the full path from dropl…

z4j: a self-hosted control plane for Python task queues

z4j is an open-source dashboard for Python background-job systems. It connects to the task queue (or queues) running in production and gives operators…

Horilla CRM: A Free & Open-Source Django CRM for Modern Businesses in 2026

If you've spent any time searching for an open-source CRM , you've probably hit the same wall most teams hit: the popular options are either bloated, …

🌿 Plant Disease Detection System

Agriculture is the backbone of many economies, yet plant diseases continue to cause massive crop losses every year. What if farmers could detect disea…

How to Prevent IDOR Vulnerabilities in Django REST APIs

How to Prevent IDOR Vulnerabilities in Django REST APIs An authenticated user changes /api/orders/42/ to /api/orders/43/ and reads someone else's orde…