I was about to post something similar, but this nicely summarizes my feelings. Even with DRF (for REST APIs) the extreme coupling at all layers makes things pai

I was about to post something similar, but this nicely summarizes my feelings. Even with DRF (for REST APIs) the extreme coupling at all layers makes things painful, though it's possible to reduce that pain a little with some carefully enforced rules. (I would like to see a way of disabling QuerySet traversing, so that if you try to access something that you didn't already prefetch_related/select_related then you just hit an error (and therefore fix it before you go live). The behaviour of just happily issuing hundreds of DB queries in a single request really hides a bunch of architectural and performance issues.) That said, as the sibling comment says, if you need a simple- to moderate-complexity, mostly CRUD API, and particularly if you need it fast, then Django is a great tool.