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Who Uses Guardian

Django-guardian is trusted by thousands of projects worldwide, from small startups to large enterprises. This page showcases some of the notable projects and organizations that have adopted django-guardian for their object-level permissions needs.

Why This Matters

Seeing real-world usage helps demonstrate:

  • Battle-tested reliability: Guardian has been proven in production environments
  • Community adoption: Wide acceptance in the Django ecosystem
  • Scalability: Used successfully in projects of all sizes
  • Versatility: Applied across diverse industries and use cases

Open Source Projects

This section will be populated with real projects as the community contributes them. Here's an example of the format we'll use:

Example Category

Example Project Name (This is a fictional example for format demonstration) - Description: Brief description of what the project does - GitHub: github.com/example/project - Usage: How they use django-guardian in their project - Scale: Information about the scale of usage (optional)

More projects will be added here as the community shares their usage stories.

Industry Use Cases

Django-guardian is used across various industries. Here are some common use cases where projects have successfully implemented object-level permissions:

E-commerce

  • Multi-tenant marketplace platforms
  • Customer data protection
  • Vendor-specific product management

Healthcare

  • Patient record access control
  • HIPAA compliance implementations
  • Medical device management systems

Financial Services

  • Transaction-level permissions
  • Regulatory compliance systems
  • Client data segregation

Government & Public Sector

  • Citizen service portals
  • Document management systems
  • Inter-agency data sharing

Success Stories

High-Scale Deployments

Enterprise SaaS Platforms - Some Guardian users serve millions of users daily - Handle hundreds of thousands of permission checks per second - Successfully scaled to multi-petabyte datasets

Global Content Platforms - International news organizations using Guardian for editorial workflows - Multi-language content management with region-specific permissions - Real-time collaboration with granular access controls

Open Source Projects

If your open source project uses django-guardian, we'd love to feature it! Please:

  1. Create an issue on our GitHub repository
  2. Include the following information:
  3. Project name and description
  4. GitHub/project URL
  5. How you use Guardian
  6. Any interesting implementation details

Commercial Projects

While we can't always feature commercial projects publicly, knowing about your usage helps us:

  • Prioritize development efforts
  • Understand real-world requirements
  • Improve performance and scalability

Feel free to reach out through our community channels.

Community Resources

  • Django Guardian Discussion Forum: Share your use cases and get help
  • Stack Overflow: Tag your questions with django-guardian
  • GitHub Discussions: Feature requests and architectural discussions
  • IRC/Discord: Real-time community support

Want to contribute to this page? We welcome additions of projects using django-guardian. Please see our contribution guidelines for more information.