Django for ORM-heavy domain logic + FastAPI for async notification consumer — each framework where it's strongest. RabbitMQ topic exchange decouples writes from delivery.
WebHook Manager
Celery + Redis broker for fire-and-forget delivery. Circuit breaker prevents hammering dead endpoints. HMAC + idempotency at infra layer, not business logic.
RealTimeChat
Redis Pub/Sub over in-memory — scaling to N replicas is transparent. WS auth via query param because browsers don't support custom headers on handshake.
BookFinder API
Async SQLAlchemy 2 + asyncpg — bottleneck is I/O. Prometheus from day one — errors visible in dashboard before the first bug report.