Django development services
We build and upgrade business web applications with Django, the Python web framework. Through our Django development services, we own the database model, permissions and API contracts your product and operations teams rely on.
01Capabilities
Django web applications built around records and rules
We design Django web applications around business data and access rules. Our Python development work covers data pipelines, machine learning and automation.
- Operations
Approval flows and operations consoles
We build approval flows and operations consoles, including the administrative side of an LMS. Django's admin supports internal management; customer workflows get dedicated screens and permissions.
- Interfaces
Django REST Framework APIs over relational data
We define the API contract over a database with explicit business constraints. Django REST Framework handles serialization, permissions and paging; we design the query patterns behind that contract through our platform integration work.
- Catalogue
Catalogue, pricing and fulfilment systems
We build catalogue, pricing and fulfilment back ends for e-commerce. The data model defines how staff manage structured content and how customers retrieve it, so editing and query behaviour are designed together.
- Upgrades
Supported Django and Python upgrades
We upgrade Django, Python and dependencies in ordered steps through legacy modernization, with a supported release as the target. The sequence accounts for add-ons and deprecated behaviour used by the application.
02Fit
Where Django fits in a web application
We recommend Django when relational data, permissions and internal operations define the application. Other workloads can use a separate service or a different foundation.
| Your situation | What we recommend |
|---|---|
| A relational business application with permissions and internal staff workflows | Build with DjangoUse the ORM, database migrations and admin as the application foundation. Keep business rules explicit and give customer workflows their own interface. |
| Data pipelines, machine learning or automation with no web workflow | Python developmentData engineering, models and automation belong with our Python development work. Choose the libraries and execution model around the task. |
| Live updates, streaming or many long-lived connections | Assess the async stackDjango supports async views and an ASGI stack. We assess database access and synchronous dependencies before choosing it or a Node.js service for this component. |
| An organisation with established .NET or Java engineering standards | ASP.NET or JavaBuild on ASP.NET or Java when it fits your organisation's engineering and maintenance standards. The framework decision includes who will own and operate the application. |
| Mostly editorial content with little custom business logic | WordPress or staticUse WordPress when editorial publishing is central, or a static site for content that can be published ahead of time. A Django application fits work that needs business rules and application data. |
| An existing Django project several releases behind | Upgrade in stagesBuild a reproducible environment and test critical business flows, then plan framework and dependency upgrades. Inspect query patterns and indexes before deciding whether any larger rebuild is needed. |
Scope
We own the data model, upgrade path and query behaviour, including the code your engineers maintain after handover. unicrew has delivered projects since 2012 and has 100+ senior in-house engineers across six countries. Our information-security and quality management systems are ISO 27001:2022 and ISO 9001:2015 certified.
Django's conventions let a small team carry a large application. When one part of a product outgrows them, we give that part its own service and keep the rest on Django.
Yaroslav HavrylivSenior Engineering Manager, unicrew03Delivery
The sequence for upgrading an existing Django application
We read the database history before changing the application. It shows how the data model and the running system have evolved.
- Read the database and migration historyWe compare the data model with its migration history, including squashed or skipped migrations and manually added columns. That establishes how the schema reached its current state.
- Reproduce the environment and critical flowsWe pin the Python environment and dependencies so the application can be rebuilt. Tests then capture critical business behaviour, using the user interface where direct testing of older internals is impractical.
- Sequence framework and dependency upgradesWe work through the Django upgrade sequence in steps, resolving deprecation warnings and checking add-on compatibility at each stage. Where an add-on is no longer maintained, we assess its replacement as part of the plan.
- Inspect queries, indexes and pagingWe inspect queries that hit the database once per row, missing indexes and screens that fetch more data than they display. We correct these patterns before adding caching, workers or server resources.
04Stack
The runtime, database and interface around Django
The Python runtime and deployment environment support both Django's database work and its user interface.
05Questions
Questions about Django applications and upgrades
A Django engagement starts with the workflow the application must support.
Yes. You can hire Django developers for an existing or new application. An architect outside the delivery team reviews the data model and upgrade plan, and changes go through our QA and test automation practice.
A managed development team includes unicrew delivery coordination. For ownership of the complete application, we provide custom software development.
We use Django for web applications built around records, permissions and staff workflows.
- The ORM maps application models to database records.
- Migrations track changes to the database schema.
- The admin provides an interface for trusted internal staff.
For data pipelines, machine learning or automation, our Python development covers the wider language work.
We choose Django when a service owns relational data, permissions and an internal admin workflow. FastAPI fits a smaller API layer over another system.
Django supports asynchronous views and an ASGI request stack, so concurrency alone does not decide the framework. For a conventional web product, Ruby on Rails remains another framework option.
Yes. We plan a staged Django and dependency upgrade after reproducing the environment and testing critical business behaviour.
The migration history, deprecation warnings and installed add-ons define the sequence. We assess replacements for add-ons that no longer have maintenance and check the application at each stage.
It depends on who uses the interface and what tasks they need to complete. Django's admin is intended as an internal management tool, with permission controls that must be matched to staff roles.
Where customers need workflow-specific screens, we build those screens and retain the admin for internal operations. We assess permissions and audit requirements around both.
We start with a technical scoping call about the workflow and data model. For an existing application, we ask for repository read access and migration history.
You receive a written recommendation on what to build or upgrade, what to preserve and the risks that affect the sequence. Most engagements start within two to four weeks.
We quote Django development against the application scope and engagement model.
- Time and materials: billed hourly, quoted per project.
- Fixed price: outcome based, quoted per project after the initial assessment.
- Team extension: billed monthly per team member.
Plan your Django application or upgrade
Tell us what the web application must do and, if it exists, which Django release it uses. We return a written recommendation on the build or upgrade scope.