Ritik Goyal
Python & Django developer for web apps and APIs
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Hit a classic Django trap this week and figured it's worth sharing since so many people are running into it now.
I was adding an LLM feature to a Django app. The AI call takes a few seconds, so naturally I made the view async so it doesn't block a worker while waiting. Wrote the...
Spent an afternoon this week chasing down why a client's order dashboard took around 2.5s to load.
Turned out the page was firing 300+ database queries. Classic N+1 problem. Every order in the loop was making its own separate trip to the DB just to grab the customer and product.
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