High Performance Django at Ten: Old Tricks & New Picks
summary
Book released 2014 and crowdfunded on Kickstarter (about $13,000) with reported total sales ~$57,514.20; claims that Django scales when you apply specific practices not just patterns. Replaces Varnish with CDN like Cloudflare or Fastley, prefers Postgress and caches via Reddus/Valky, warns the database is usually the bottleneck (N+1 queries, missing indexes, expensive counts), cautions Celery complexity, suggests managed services, highlights autoscaling limits for traffic spikes, and flags query profiling and rollbacks as concrete, repeatable fixes.
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chapters (10)
- 0:00Introduction
- 7:34Architecture principles
- 13:13High performance Django
- 16:03Database performance pitfalls
- 19:57Caching and async tasks
- 22:29Deployment and autoscaling
- 26:44Managed services and observability
- 30:19Load testing and continuous deployment
- 36:48Rollbacks and compatibility
- 37:55Q&A
