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Arghya Saha
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Arghya (argo) Saha, is a software developer with 8+ years of experience and has been working with Django since 2015. Apart from Django, he is proficient in JavaScript, ReactJS, Node.js, Postgres, AWS, and several other technologies. He has worked with multiple start-ups, such as Postman and HealthifyMe, among others, to build applications at scale. He currently works at Abnormal Security as a senior Site Reliability Engineer to explore his passion in the infrastructure domain. In his spare time, he writes tech blogs. He is also an adventurous person who has done multiple Himalayan treks and is an endurance athlete with multiple marathons and triathlons under his belt.
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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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Arghya Saha

Arghya (argo) Saha, is a software developer with 8+ years of experience and has been working with Django since 2015. Apart from Django, he is proficient in JavaScript, ReactJS, Node.js, Postgres, AWS, and several other technologies. He has worked with multiple start-ups, such as Postman and HealthifyMe, among others, to build applications at scale. He currently works at Abnormal Security as a senior Site Reliability Engineer to explore his passion in the infrastructure domain. In his spare time, he writes tech blogs. He is also an adventurous person who has done multiple Himalayan treks and is an endurance athlete with multiple marathons and triathlons under his belt.
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