Designing a One-Way Farm Sync Architecture (Nextcloud Django DRF)

From Nextcloud to Django: Designing a Farm Sync Architecture with DRF Modern applications rarely live in a single system. As projects grow, different components begin to specialize: one system handles identity and user workflows, while another focuses on computation and domain logic. This week I explored a small but interesting distributed architecture problem: how to synchronize farm data between a Nextcloud application and a Django REST API backend . The goal was simple in theory: Nextcloud provides the user interface. Django performs geospatial computation (NDVI, raster processing). Farm data must stay consistent between the two systems. But as any engineer knows, “simple in theory” is where architecture decisions start to matter. The Initial Problem In the system I’m building, users manage farms from a Nextcloud application while a Django service handles geospatial workloads. The challenge was deciding where farm data should live and how it should propagate between systems . Three