I’m curious if there’s any consensus here. Obvious answers are: Models/Managers - make them FAT is often cited as the default but can have performance issues and in large projects become unwieldy to reason about Views - obvious place to put them but can also grow too large and not performant, plus…

Where to put business logic in Django?

wsvincent September 20, 2019, 5:09pm 3

Cool guide/repo! This is exactly what EdX does, for example. And I suspect others of similar size.

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