Shameless plug - I ran into this while developing REST interfaces with Django and built django-auto-prefetching: https://github.com/GeeWee/django-auto-prefetchi

Shameless plug - I ran into this while developing REST interfaces with Django and built django-auto-prefetching: https://github.com/GeeWee/django-auto-prefetching https://github.com/GeeWee/django-auto-prefetching It essentially travels your DRF serializer tree and builds an auto-prefetched query automatically without you needing to do any work. Back when I still worked actively on it, I wanted to monkey-patch models to track whether or not n+1 was happening, and if it was, automatically do pre-fetching, so instead of an n+1 problem you'd end up with just a "3-4 queries when it could've been 1" problem - which is much more palatable. Never got around to that part though.