django-patterns

Production-grade Django architecture patterns for scalable, maintainable applications. Remember: Django provides many shortcuts, but for production applications, structure and organization matter more than concise code. Build for maintainability. - Covers project structure with split settings (base, development, production, test), custom managers and QuerySets, and service layer separation for business logic - Includes Django REST Framework patterns: serializers with validation, ViewSets with custom actions, filtering, searching, and pagination - Demonstrates ORM best practices: select_related and prefetch_related for N+1 prevention, bulk operations, database indexing, and constraint definitions - Provides caching strategies at view, template fragment, and low-level cache layers, plus signal patterns for event-driven actions and custom middleware for request logging and user tracking - Building Django web applications - Designing Django REST Framework APIs - Working with Django ORM and models - Setting up Django project structure - Implementing caching, signals, middleware