Django 3 Web Development Cookbook - Fourth Edition

Using Memcached to cache Django views

Django allows us to speed up the request-response cycle by caching the most expensive parts, such as database queries or template rendering. The fastest and most reliable caching natively supported by Django is the memory-based cache server Memcached. In this recipe, you will learn how to use Memcached to cache a view for the viral_videos app. We'll explore this further in the Using database query expressions recipe in Chapter 10, Bells and Whistles.