Djass journal
Practical writeups on generator decisions, release notes, and lessons from building production Django SaaS workflows.
Build Django feature flags for safe rollouts: separate access from release, define fallbacks, test both paths, audit changes, and remove stale flags.
Choose Q2, Celery Beat, or platform cron for Django scheduled tasks, with rules for missed runs, overlap, time zones, idempotency, and monitoring.
Build a Django file upload pipeline with size limits, layered validation, direct S3 uploads, malware scanning, cleanup, and tests.
Configure Django Sentry for releases, privacy, sampling, workers, issue ownership, and a tested production incident workflow.
Configure Django S3 storage for public and private media, signed URLs, safe file naming, migration, rollback, and production tests.
Design a Django health check for liveness, readiness, PostgreSQL, Redis, workers, safe responses, and deployment probes.
Design a Django audit log for model changes, denied actions, exports, privacy, retention, and evidence tests in production SaaS.
Configure Django logging with JSON events, request and task context, safe fields, error routing, and tests for production SaaS systems.
Choose between Django async views and background tasks using request lifetime, transactions, retries, state, and operational cost.
Build reliable Django analytics with PostHog: stable identity, browser intent, server-truth events, verified billing conversions, and tests.
Build Django allauth for SaaS with email-first signup, verification codes, social login, passkeys, recovery, rate limits, and lifecycle tests.
Build Django Stripe subscriptions with Checkout, verified webhooks, durable entitlement state, a billing portal, and lifecycle tests.
Compare Django 6 Tasks, Django Q2, and Celery, then choose a background-job setup using workload, reliability, and operations criteria.
