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		charlierguo on May 8, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to design software architecture for startups > This allows you to run API migrations and data migrations independently. Which is crucial for any service that will last longer than 1 year. I've felt nervous for years about going all-in with Django Rest Framework, and you've articulated exactly why.

trashburger on May 8, 2023 [–]

We use it at work. We always define the exact fields we want, and can swap them for SerializerMethodFields if we need to do something different/funky. It works very well, imo.

kdazzle on May 9, 2023 | [–]

Yeah, I wish every language had something as nice as DRF. I’ve never had issues with it for a few different multi-year codebases.

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