It really shines if you are doing simple CRUD APIs where you can lean on autogenerated routes, views, and serializers. Since you can get full CRUD for a model i

It really shines if you are doing simple CRUD APIs where you can lean on autogenerated routes, views, and serializers. Since you can get full CRUD for a model in something like 10 lines of code. When you need to wire up custom serializers per model (eg specifying subsets of fields or making some read-only) and wire up non-CRUD actions then I think you can fall down a slippery slope where you write as much (or more) code than if you just used say marshmallow and flask to manually write your API. Also you get the Django model admin for free, so for internal services you have a nice CRUD admin for operators. I think it’s a great tool for accelerating your first 100-200kloc of API code. Beyond that it can start to creak at the seams depending on your usecase. (I’d make the same assessment about Django itself FWIW).