"Warning: You probably don't want to do this because it's unsupported and very hacky."

The opening line should have stopped here. Dynamic data structures in untyped languages are risky, hard to debug, and prone to breaking One can argue that document stores (e.g. CouchDB and MangoDB) have been around for a while but their strength (and that of JSONField), is the ability to store hierarchy, not arbitrary structure (which they also do). A dynamic model like the one in the article serves as a database-stored deserializer, which is more of the domain of the business logic, rather than data.

Having said all this, the article is dope :o