No thanks, Django was a complicated mess, and Python is, in my opinion, not at all suited for long-running services in production. There are a plethora of other languages for that.
Seems like you're close to, or perhaps the creator of, the project - nothing against you or the team. I just don't have a lot of positive things to say about Django after having worked with it.
Yeah, Instagram like sites need to built with rust, using a react app, oh wait no it was built on top of python and Django, yet somehow they became successful. That says a lot about how much it can pull to, may be you expected something thats not intended for Django to do?
Not affiliated with Django at all. I just use it for a few production apps, although they are not exactly high traffic.
I have a high traffic product in use, but the backend is written in Java w/ Undertow.
What I enjoy about Python is that it's great at getting stuff and ideas out quickly. In fact, I just added a new feature tonight to a Django project and that took me ~45 min for something that would likely take 3 hrs to implement in Java.
Seems like you're close to, or perhaps the creator of, the project - nothing against you or the team. I just don't have a lot of positive things to say about Django after having worked with it.