You sometimes (because of cache, we only check once a day) get this message on startup:
$ python3 manage.py shell
/home/dlawrence/localwork/variantgrid/.venv/lib/python3.12/site-packages/django/db/backends/utils.py:98: RuntimeWarning: Accessing the database during app initialization is discouraged. To fix this warning, avoid executing queries in AppConfig.ready() or when your app modules are imported.
warnings.warn(self.APPS_NOT_READY_WARNING_MSG, category=RuntimeWarning)