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Django in Production

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Product type Book
Published in Apr 2024
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781804610480
Pages 348 pages
Edition 1st Edition
Languages
Author (1):
Arghya Saha Arghya Saha
Profile icon Arghya Saha

Table of Contents (21) Chapters

Preface 1. Part 1 – Using Django and DRF to Build Modern Web Application
2. Chapter 1: Setting Up Django with DRF 3. Chapter 2: Exploring Django ORM, Models, and Migrations 4. Chapter 3: Serializing Data with DRF 5. Chapter 4: Exploring Django Admin and Management Commands 6. Chapter 5: Mastering Django Authentication and Authorization 7. Part 2 – Using the Advanced Concepts of Django
8. Chapter 6: Caching, Logging, and Throttling 9. Chapter 7: Using Pagination, Django Signals, and Custom Middleware 10. Chapter 8: Using Celery with Django 11. Chapter 9: Writing Tests in Django 12. Chapter 10: Exploring Conventions in Django 13. Part 3 – Dockerizing and Setting Up a CI Pipeline for Django Application
14. Chapter 11: Dockerizing Django Applications 15. Chapter 12: Working with Git and CI Pipelines Using Django 16. Part 4 – Deploying and Monitoring Django Applications in Production
17. Chapter 13: Deploying Django in AWS 18. Chapter 14: Monitoring Django Application 19. Index 20. Other Books You May Enjoy

Asynchronous programming in Django

Django 4 introduced the concept of asynchronous programming in its core framework. While support for async views is introduced in Django, the official documentation (https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/topics/async/#performance) states that async views would lead to a performance hit.

Hence, the adaption of native asynchronous programming is not yet mature as of Django 4.x. While most common and basic features will not need any async support, Django as a framework is thus lagging behind other frameworks such as Express and Spring. To work around this problem, Django developers use third-party frameworks to implement asynchronous support. Generally, asynchronous programming is helpful when one has a long-running task that can be executed in the background. For example, when we have to send an email, our Django view would make an external API call to an email service and await the response. This whole process can take a while and there is no...

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