Is Django async yet?

Django started adding support for writing asynchronous views in version 3.1. We are now at 5.0: what’s the status of this journey? It still may be too early to start rewriting all our production backend code using asynchronous views :) Though it may be a good moment to take a look at it.
We’ll try to rewrite a simple synchronous API as an asynchronous API and see what works, how well it’s working and what’s missing.

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1. Is Django async yet? Riccardo Magliocchetti - @rmistaken / @rmistaken@hachyderm.io
2. Is Django ⋎ async yet? Riccardo Magliocchetti - @rmistaken / @rmistaken@hachyderm.io Rest Framework
3. History of this talk
5. Asynchronous Django
6. Django REST Framework?
7. Convert a DRF API to Async DRF ModelViewSet for django.contrib.auth User and Group models
8. Experience of Async DRF
9. Experience of Async DRF - No ModelViewSet available
10. Experience of Async DRF - No ModelViewSet available - Missing HTML rendering
11. Experience of Async DRF - No ModelViewSet available - Missing HTML rendering - Missing async related fields in serializers
12. Experience of Async DRF - No ModelViewSet available - Missing HTML rendering - Missing async related fields in serializers - Missing default permissions classes
14. Experience of Async DRF Attempt to fix a couple of issues, still red tests: em1208/adrf/pull/36
15. Experience of Async DRF Try to fix a couple of issues, still red tests: em1208/adrf/pull/36 Good opportunity to write parts of a web framework
16. What good amid these?
17. asgiref.sync.async_to_sync asgiref.sync.sync_to_async
18. OpenTelemetry!
19. Demo!
20. Conclusions - Django proceeds swiftly - Async DRF succession still vacant - Mind the batteries
21. References - Django asynchronous support - DRF async discussion - Async DRF - Demo project - Opentelemetry - opentelemetry-instrumentation-asgiref
22. Thanks! Riccardo Magliocchetti - @rmistaken / @rmistaken@hachyderm.io