Django News - Django's Ecosystem - Jul 11th 2025

Django developers can dramatically improve ORM query performance on large datasets by replacing only with values to reduce model instantiation overhead and memory usage.

Implement Nginx rate limiting with zones and bursts to protect Django endpoints from abusive traffic and ensure consistent performance under load.

Configure Django applications on Coolify to handle static and media files using WhiteNoise for static files and a combination of Coolify's Persistent Storage, Caddy web server, and Supervisor for media files.

Django-Tailwind v4.2.0 adds a unified tailwind dev command powered by Honcho, optional daisyUI integration, and streamlined Tailwind plugin installation support.

The Django community is doing itself a disservice by not mentioning third-party libraries more prominently in the documentation.

An in-depth look at Django CMS, its history and early promise, lost momentum to WordPress due to a developer-heavy learning curve, and optimism for the future around the recent Django CMS 5.0 release in May that positions it for a comeback in the headless and enterprise CMS market.