alt Hacker NewsHow do your API calls get into the Django app(s)? Do you define the API as well on the Django side (duplicating the API)? Or is there some tool that translates the Rust API calls for Django efficiently?
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tclancy • today at 11:40 AM
Going to guess they explicitly map the database tables (and do it all as read-only perhaps) to allow admins to view and report on data from the API.
In practice, I've found you never want to be duplicating full models on the API side - you're only querying specific fields so you end up with custom/ad-hoc structs instead of ORM objects like you'd have in Django.
Just read from the database and treat Django as a DB builder/migrator/inspector.