William S. Vincent. Django for Professionals. , , 2020.

Welcome to Django for Professionals, a guide to building professional websites with the Django web framework. There is a massive gulf between building simple “toy apps” that can be created and deployed quickly and what it takes to build a “production-ready” web application suitable for deployment to thousands or even millions of users. This book will show you to how to bridge that gap. When you first install Django and create a new project the default settings are geared towards fast local development. And this makes sense: there’s no need to add all the additional features required of a large website until you know you need them. These defaults include SQLite as the default database, a local web server, local static asset hosting, built-in User model, and DEBUG mode turned on. But for a production project many, if not most, of these settings must be reconfigured. And even then there can be a frustrating lack of agreement among the experts. For example, what’s the best production database to use? Many Django developers, myself included, choose PostgreSQL. It is what we will use in this book. However an argument can be made for MySQL depending on the project. It really does all depend on the specific requirements of a project.