GlitchTip uses django-ninja with ASGI and real asyncio-native cache, workers

[bufke]

https://gitlab.com/glitchtip/glitchtip-backend/

I thought some may be interested in my usage of django-ninja and Django ASGI. Django has limited async support for ORM and cache. It uses threads instead of more performant native asyncio tools. Celery too doesn't support async well, often requiring wrappers. Since I am insane, I made alternatives:

• Cache: django-vcache based on django-valkey and django-redis. Asyncio-first an opinionated Django cache.
• Tasks: django-vtasks background worker that supports valkey, redis, databases. Runs a asyncio loop and uses threads for sync tasks. Can run as it's own process or embedded in ASGI. Uses Django 6.0 task framework

These projects wouldn't exist without django-valkey and django-tasks which are both great projects. I'm taking their approach but being more opinionated, focused on asyncio, and performance. And of course I'm grateful for django-ninja as our API layer!

I also recommend:

• Granian Modern and fast python server supporting both WSGI and ASGI.
• Keep an eye on https://github.com/Arfey/django-async-backend/ yet ready for production yet.