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Welcome to the most ambitious and deeply technical Django repository ever created. This guide is designed to serve as a world-class, expert-level reference for mastering Django at the level of enterprise architects and backend engineering leaders.
It is intended for:
- Senior Django Developers
- Software & Solutions Architects
- DevOps and Platform Engineers
- Technical Leads & Engineering Managers
- Researchers and Educators in Software Engineering
💡 Mission: Build the most complete, professional, and globally recognized knowledge base on very advanced Django concepts — going far beyond standard tutorials and typical online content.
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Every concept presented in this repository is explained in detail in the associated video series on the 🎬 Donald Programmeur YouTube Channel → https://www.youtube.com/@donaldprogrammeur
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This repository is organized into 10+ expert-level sections, each focusing on a high-level area of Django architecture, performance, or internals. Every topic dives deep into how Django truly works under the hood.
- Deep dive into the App Registry
- Django application lifecycle & AppConfig
- Middleware pipeline internals
- Detailed Request/Response processing
- WSGI vs ASGI — low-level internals
- Django concurrency model
- Thread-safety and process-safety
- Internal URL Resolver mechanics
- QuerySet → SQL compilation (Query, Compiler, WhereNode)
- Building custom ORM backends
- Lazy evaluation and query execution flow
- Advanced annotations, subqueries, window functions
- Deep ORM performance optimization
- Expression API mastery
- Creating custom lookups and operators
- Django inside microservices ecosystems
- Event-driven architecture (Kafka, Redis Streams)
- Multi-tenant architectures (schema, database, row-level)
- Multi-database routing & data sharding
- CQRS & Event Sourcing with Django
- Clean Architecture / Hexagonal patterns
- API Gateway design with Kong, Nginx, Istio
- ASGI internals and event loop integration
- Fully async views and async middleware
- Async ORM concepts and limitations
- WebSockets at scale (Channels, Daphne, Uvicorn)
- Combining Django + FastAPI for performance-critical endpoints
- Multi-layer cache architecture
- Redis advanced usage patterns
- Cache invalidation strategies
- Handling thundering-herd effects
- CDN integration (Cloudflare, CloudFront)
- Eliminating N+1 problems
- Load balancing Django in production
- Deep security middleware analysis
- Framework-level XSS / CSRF / SQL Injection protections
- JWT rotation, session invalidation, token lifecycles
- Secret management with Vault / AWS Secrets Manager
- SOC2, HIPAA, PCI-DSS considerations with Django
- Generating models dynamically
- Building dynamic serializers and forms
- Metaclasses in Django architecture
- Designing a plugin-based Django system
- Code generation & automation tooling
- Creating advanced management command factories
- Advanced Celery concepts (chains, chords, groups)
- Event-driven automation & pipelines
- Airflow orchestration with Django
- Distributed task queues at scale
- Building high-availability task systems
- Building high-quality Django packages
- Ensuring multi-version compatibility
- Backward-compatible migrations
- Publishing and maintaining PyPI packages
- Architecting reusable Django apps
- Async test architecture
- Multi-database test patterns
- Deep mocking and dependency isolation
- Performance and benchmark testing
- Docker-based test environments
- Full end-to-end (E2E) testing strategies
We welcome contributions from:
- Advanced Django developers
- Software and cloud architects
- Researchers and DevOps professionals
- Open-source contributors with real-world experience
📘 Read the full guide here: CONTRIBUTING.md
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