15 yrs of Django in prod: patterns I keep using (agent skills)

What it does

A collection of Agent Skills that give a coding agent architectural skills to build scalable, maintainable Django projects with clean separation of concerns, testability, and a full suite of best practices. I love Django, but some parts of it are genuinely hard to type: querysets, model instances, related managers, F() / Q() expressions, etc. In my experience, the cleanest way to handle this is to keep all the ORM work behind a repository layer that returns Pydantic DTOs. Your business logic lives in services that never import a model. Your views become one-liners, and each layer becomes very easy to mock and test. After discussions with my friends Haki Benita and Pete Nilson , this is what…from github.com

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  After a decade of shipping Django to production, I got tired of solving the same setup problems on every new project. Environment-first settings. Sensible auth defaults. Structured logging. CI from day zero. Pre-commit hooks. Docker. Security hardening. Every project meant two days of boilerplate before writing business logic. So I built Django Keel: a production-ready Django starter that eliminates the yak-shaving. GitHub: https://github.com/CuriousLearner/django-keel *What you get*: - 12-factor config with environment-based secrets - Production-hardened security…

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  Django Ninja CRUD – Rethinking CRUD Operations in Django2023 · github.com · ▲100

  I've developed Django Ninja CRUD, a tool to simplify CRUD operations in Django by leveraging Django Ninja's strengths. It aims to make CRUD operations more intuitive, modular, and efficient, especially for large-scale projects. Key aspects: - Declarative, intuitive CRUD operations. - Modular approach with composition-over-inheritance. - Enhanced testing capabilities for robust applications. The tool is designed to transform Django development workflows, improving efficiency and maintainability. Read more about the development, features and roadmap here:…

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