Why Django Sucks, Except When It Doesn’t « Coffee on the Keyboard

If you’re prototyping a new project, or if you’re a start-up and need to ship something, or if you’re just one person working on a little app with a few (even a few tens of thousands) of users, odds are that none of those benefits are worth losing the nice stuff Django gives you, or the time it takes to build APIs (even using existing apps to do it) or abstraction layers between the silos.