diff --git a/etebase_fastapi/db_hack.py b/etebase_fastapi/db_hack.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..24d5824
--- /dev/null
+++ b/etebase_fastapi/db_hack.py
@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@
+"""
+FIXME: this whole function is a hack around the django db limitations due to how db connections are cached and cleaned.
+Essentially django assumes there's the django request dispatcher to automatically clean up after the ORM.
+"""
+import typing as t
+from functools import wraps
+
+from django.db import close_old_connections, reset_queries
+
+
+def django_db_cleanup():
+    reset_queries()
+    close_old_connections()
+
+
+def django_db_cleanup_decorator(func: t.Callable[..., t.Any]):
+    from inspect import iscoroutinefunction
+
+    if iscoroutinefunction(func):
+        return func
+
+    @wraps(func)
+    def wrapper(*args, **kwargs):
+        django_db_cleanup()
+        return func(*args, **kwargs)
+
+    return wrapper
diff --git a/etebase_fastapi/msgpack.py b/etebase_fastapi/msgpack.py
index 8de8806..67627e1 100644
--- a/etebase_fastapi/msgpack.py
+++ b/etebase_fastapi/msgpack.py
@@ -1,10 +1,13 @@
 import typing as t
+
+from fastapi import params
 from fastapi.routing import APIRoute, get_request_handler
 from pydantic import BaseModel
 from starlette.requests import Request
 from starlette.responses import Response
 
 from .utils import msgpack_encode, msgpack_decode
+from .db_hack import django_db_cleanup_decorator
 
 
 class MsgpackRequest(Request):
@@ -35,6 +38,22 @@ class MsgpackRoute(APIRoute):
     # keep track of content-type -> response classes
     ROUTES_HANDLERS_CLASSES = {MsgpackResponse.media_type: MsgpackResponse}
 
+    def __init__(
+        self,
+        path: str,
+        endpoint: t.Callable[..., t.Any],
+        *args,
+        dependencies: t.Optional[t.Sequence[params.Depends]] = None,
+        **kwargs
+    ):
+        if dependencies is not None:
+            dependencies = [
+                params.Depends(django_db_cleanup_decorator(dep.dependency), use_cache=dep.use_cache)
+                for dep in dependencies
+            ]
+        endpoint = django_db_cleanup_decorator(endpoint)
+        super().__init__(path, endpoint, *args, dependencies=dependencies, **kwargs)
+
     def _get_media_type_route_handler(self, media_type):
         return get_request_handler(
             dependant=self.dependant,