Django async REST API

Django itself does not determine whether it runs in one or more threads . This is the job of the server running Django. The development server used to be single-threaded, but in recent versions it has been made multithreaded.

WSGI handles requests synchronously . When requests come in, they are processed sequentially or one after the other. They have to wait until the one before it finishes before switching to a new task.

Django itself is synchronous . each HTTP request will be handled completely synchronously. However you have extensions like django-channels ( https://github.com/django/channels ) , which are asynchronous and are intended for web sockets / etc.24 Eki 2019

First, to dispel a misconception about signals, they are not executed asynchronously . There is no background thread or worker to execute them. Like most of Django, they are fully “synchronous”.

Django has support for writing asynchronous (“async”) views, along with an entirely async-enabled request stack if you are running under ASGI. Async views will still work under WSGI, but with performance penalties, and without the ability to have efficient long-running requests.