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p of it and you're even bigger and nastier. I would never use it again because the amount of time spent bending it to my will often exceeds the time I'd spend building my own system. Fair warning, I have been using Django in production since version 0.96 and have built many companies on it. After ten years of building web apps, using every MVC under the sun, and working with every size/shape team under the sun you really start to appreciate simple things that compose well together. They're easier to reason about. They're easier to replace. They're easier to pull out and turn into a standalone library or shared service. Are you hitting the wall with one tiny part of your app? Replace it with something written in an entirely different language and communicate via JSON, or over a message bus. Not everything can be mapped to a WSGI request/response. I am so glad aidos has the top comment on this post because his/her style is what we should all be aiming for from the get-go. I'd definitely suggest reading up on the SOLID –https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SOLID_(object-oriented_design) – principles. Furthermore, the adapter concept is often explained with scary Java code samples, but the core of it is wonderful. Essentially you should consider your API as a vanilla system in your language of choice and you build adapters which then allow for external services to communicate. One adapter could be HTTP (via Flask perhaps) for a front-end website. One adapter could be HTTP but one that only speaks JSON, which you might serve under api.yourdomain.com. Another adapter might be via a queue system which allows for arbitrary commands from an external source to get written to a durable queue, so that they can be replayed later. I took some melatonin so at this point I feel like I am just babbling and about to fall asleep. tl;dr build things without frameworks, use your language well, be vanilla, compose tiny things to build big things.