Django for bussiness

Today I want to talk about some of the capabilities of Django and point to some of the biggest tech companies and websites that have either used Django or currently use Django in their tech stack and use them as a reference point to show you what you can really do with Django. The type of things that you can actually build with it so I've wanted to write this article for a while but I got an email today that really encouraged me to write this sooner.

Companies that use Django

Django for business

Building a website is kind of a common issue in the industry where people think that they need a certain tech stack or a language to be successful. I'll paraphrase it and I'm assuming this person is just curious and doesn't really understand too much about programming so I'm not trying to insult them but I did want to address it. I'll paraphrase it but they said please promote a language that gives you a real chance to start businesses like PHP. PHP is great and you can do a lot with it and so can you with Django along with node JS or Ruby on Rails and a lot of other stuff out there so there's no one language that will really make you successful as long as you pick something that is popular out there. You can actually learn any language that suits your style and fits the needs that you're trying to accomplish. Some of these do certain things better than others. Just to address that email I'm gonna list out some of the tech companies that actually use Django so if I go through my list here I listed out five. We have Instagram, Pinterest, udemy, Dropbox and Spotify so that should give you an idea of the type of websites that can actually be built with it and the scalability.

I'm not sure if Instagram still uses Django but I do know that they rely heavily on Python and they did scale too. I believe over a million users with Django don't quote me on that but this is what I found on Google just by doing a quick search and just doing some research on companies that use Django. There's a lot of big tech companies that use it that have already you really done the groundwork for us. They have proven to us that we can build it and most of us are not going to be building these crazy applications but you can always scale these and then adjust later but the framework should not be your worry as long as you can make it work. What I would recommend if you're curious about that type of thing that you can build with it I went to stackshare.io and on that website what you can do is actually just do a search for a certain language or a library and it'll show you all the companies that have registered that actually uses so this should give you a pretty good idea of the companies that are hiring for it, how it's being used and what you can actually do with it another one is going to Stack Overflow or go to LinkedIn and look up jobs that are hiring for Django developers and you'll see the type of websites or applications that these people are building. Another thing is people always ask me what type of or can I build a certain type of website and they'll say things like can I build a social network can I build an e-commerce website like Amazon and the answer to all of those is yes. If you go ahead and apply it along with the text acts that are required with it so for example if you wanted to build an e-commerce website you can use Django to accomplish most of the things that you need maybe you'll use a front-end library like react or you just want to use a vanilla JavaScript Django will build out a good back-end and can really scale for you. The answers are absolutely yes you can do a lot with that and build out most of the things that you can think of with Django. You can even go as far as mobile applications, not that jingle will actually handle all that for you but it will provide a back-end and if you wanted to use a framework like react native or flutter or any other way to build an app you can use Django to build out that API and actually connect with it and use it as the data source and actually handle inputs and outputs of the data itself.

So Django can definitely handle all of that and again he's just used some of the companies out there as a reference point especially some of the bigger ones to see that yes you can't scale I think Instagram is a pretty good example of showing you how big an application can actually get so the last thing I wanted to leave you with here is again just to address that and say that you don't need a specific tech stack but Django can do it for you but do whatever suits you and fits. Whatever you're trying to do so if you're looking for a job find a language or framework that has a lot of job openings and you're comfortable with which will increase your chance to get a job. If you want to get a job in mobile app development then you can go with Java, Kotlin, Swift or Frameworks like Flutter and React native. If you want a job in Website building than you can go with Python, PHP, JavaScript, or Ruby on Rails. If you are an absolute beginner to programming so you should try to learn Javascript or python which will create a better foundation in coding.

I hope you I solved all your doubts about choosing a programming language for you if yes then please share this article with your friends who want to learn programming.