I Built a Django-Inspired Web Framework in Rust — Here's What I Learned
If you've ever used Django, you know the feeling: one command, and you have an admin panel, an ORM, form validation, middleware, session handling — ev…
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Understanding Memory Usage in Django Webserver Workers
If you are coming from the PHP world, you might be used to thinking that when a request reaches the web server, everything is parsed and processed fro…
Rebuilding Instagram in 2026
Building an Instagram Clone in 2026 with Django and django-pictures A story about a billion-dollar exit, a chance meeting at a business plan competiti…
Django Debug Toolbar + Docker: The Missing INTERNAL_IPS Problem
Django Debug Toolbar Didn't Appear When Running Django in Docker I'm currently working on an online accessories shop as a personal project. I usually …
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…
My Journey as a Python Backend Developer
How i started my journey My name is Vagram Katranyan, a Python backend developer passionate about building web applications with Django and REST APIs.…
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…
Как тестировать HTTP-запросы к внешним сервисам в Python-приложениях: requests-mock, pytest-httpx и FastAPI
Не всегда стоит патчить ответ от внешнего HTTP-сервиса через mocker.patch . В таких тестах приложение возвращает ожидаемый ответ, но важная част…
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…
Building Hierarchical Destination URLs Without Killing Your Database
One of the more challenging engineering problems we encountered while building our travel portal, was figuring out a decent URL structure for destinat…
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 …
Building an RSS Feed for a Django + React Portfolio (With a Styled Browser View)
RSS isn't dead. Developers still use feed readers, and having a proper /rss.xml or /blog/rss URL is a small but meaningful signal that your site is a …
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…
grep Said 1,202. The Real Answer Was 10. — Introducing colref
When deleting a database column, I ran grep "\.html\b" across a Django codebase to check for references. It returned 1,202 hits. The column had 10 act…
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…
How I Built an AI Booking Assistant for Small Businesses?
A few months ago I was thinking about a problem that almost every freelancer and small business owner faces: customers message at midnight asking "are…