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 …
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Минус 500 MB: оптимизируем Docker-образ Django-приложения
Когда Docker-образ backend-приложения начинает весить 1,5 GB, это уже хороший повод хотя бы посмотреть, что вообще лежит внутри. Пока все работает, ма…
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…
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…
We found a data-loss bug that alembic downgrade ran clean
alembic downgrade -1 ran clean. No errors. Monitoring went green. The users' phone numbers were gone. The column came back. The data didn't. Why stand…
Generating High-Quality PDFs in Django with Playwright (When Other Libraries Fall Short)
Generating High-Quality PDFs in Django with Playwright (When Other Libraries Fall Short) PDF generation is one of those tasks developers often underes…
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 …
IDOR Lab: The Bug Bounty Training Platform That Doesn't Hold Your Hand
A Django-based vulnerable lab built to simulate real-world IDOR scenarios — not just textbook examples. If you've spent any time in Bug Bounty hunting…
Building a Resume Download Gate: Email Collection, Signed Tokens, and an S3 Lesson
I wanted a soft gate on my resume download. Not a paywall. Just an email field — enough friction to filter bots, enough signal to know who's intereste…
How I Added Live Charts to the Django Admin Without Installing a Single Package
The Django admin is a powerful tool that most developers underuse. Out of the box it gives you a filterable, searchable table for every model — but it…
The N+1 Query That Killed Our Database, And How I Fixed It
Everything Worked…But Not Well APIs are affected by the way data is retrieved from the database, and that's something that affected a recent teammate …
django-deploy-probes — deployment probe endpoints for Django
When deploying Django applications, I kept running into the same problem: health check endpoints were implemented differently in every project, and li…
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…