Chapter 23. Configuring Caching
What You’ll Learn in This Hour
- How to configure cache backends
- How to implement a per-site cache
- How to implement a per-view cache
- How to manage access to cached pages
One of Django’s best features is that it lets you easily generate web pages on-the-fly. It saves you a lot of development and maintenance time. However, this advantage comes at a price. Each time a request comes in, Django spends many cycles in database queries and page generation. On small to medium websites, this isn’t much of a problem. However, on large sites that receive several requests per second, this can quickly become a problem.
Django’s caching framework solves this problem nicely. Using the cache framework, you can cache web pages and objects ...
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