Django development
A Python framework that hands you an admin interface, an ORM and authentication on day one — often weeks of work you never have to do.
Python framework
Chosen per project
Maintainable handover
Django’s single biggest practical advantage is its automatic admin. For a business system with a lot of data behind it, you get a working back office generated from your models before writing a line of interface code — and staff can start using it immediately.
Add a mature ORM with migrations, an authentication and permission system, and protections against the common web vulnerabilities built in, and a great deal of foundational work is simply already done.
What we build with Django
Business applications needing a back office quickly
Content and data-heavy platforms
Systems combining web application and data processing
Products where machine learning sits alongside the application
Where it fits — and where it does not
Good fit when
A substantial admin interface is genuinely needed
The data model is relational and well understood
Python is already used elsewhere in the organisation
Analysis or machine learning belongs in the same codebase
Consider something else when
Real-time features with persistent connections
Very small APIs where FastAPI is lighter
Deployment environments with no Python support
How Django handles a request
A predictable path from URL to response. Knowing this order is what makes Django applications straightforward to debug.
URL routing
Pattern matched to a view.
Middleware
Sessions, authentication, security headers.
View
Business logic and permission checks.
ORM
Queries and transactions against the database.
Template
Rendered HTML, or a serialised API response.
How we work with Django
Model-first
The data model designed before the interface, because in Django it drives the admin, forms and migrations.
Apps as boundaries
Discrete Django apps per domain area, so the project stays navigable as it grows.
Query discipline
select_related and prefetch_related applied deliberately — N+1 queries are Django’s most common performance trap.
Admin as a real tool
The generated admin customised into something staff can genuinely work in, not left at its defaults.
Our typical Django setup
| Concern | What we use |
|---|---|
| Version | A current Django long-term support release |
| Database | PostgreSQL, with migrations under version control |
| API | Django REST Framework where an API is needed |
| Background work | Celery with a broker, with failures surfaced |
| Admin | Customised list views, filters and actions for real use |
| Testing | pytest-django against a real database |
Frequently asked questions
Django when you want the admin, ORM, authentication and templating together — it saves substantial time on a business application. FastAPI when the deliverable is a lean, typed API and you do not need the rest.
Yes, with permissions configured properly, and it is one of the framework's biggest practical wins. We customise it into a genuine internal tool rather than leaving it at defaults.
Yes, with the usual measures — caching, read replicas and query tuning. In practice the limiting factor is nearly always database queries rather than the framework.
Services built with Django
Custom Software Development
Software shaped around the way your business already works, instead of a packaged product you have to reorganise around.
Web Application Development
Applications that run in the browser, handle real workloads and hold up when several departments depend on them at once.
AI/ML Development
Machine learning applied where it measurably beats a simpler solution — and honest advice when it does not.
Tell us what you are trying to build
Describe the problem in plain language and we will tell you what it would take to solve it — the approach, the moving parts and the sensible order to build them in. No obligation either way.