Posts for January 2010
Jan 17
Evaluating Django Caching Options
Caching is one of the first things you can do when you need to start thinking about scaling. Among efforts such as query minimization, denormalization, code optimizations, compression, database tuning, indexing, and load balancing, caching remains one of the lowest hanging fruits in methods to lighten your server load and handle huge amounts of traffic. There are many options, and I chose to evaluate a few of the most interesting setups.