[selcuka]

Django ORM has supported async syntax for some time now, and it can work fully async starting with Django 4.2 (and psycopg3). There are still a few rough edges (such as not being able to access deferred attributes from async contexts) but there are workarounds.

I usually use `asyncio.create_task` from async views for small, non-critical background tasks. Because they run in a thread you will lose them if the service crashes (or Kubernetes decides to restart the pod), but that's fine for some use cases. If you need persistency use Celery or something similar.

Django combined with an async-ready REST framework such as Django Ninja is very powerful these days.