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Mastering Django: Core

By : Nigel George
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Mastering Django: Core

By: Nigel George

Overview of this book

Mastering Django: Core is a completely revised and updated version of the original Django Book, written by Adrian Holovaty and Jacob Kaplan-Moss - the creators of Django. The main goal of this book is to make you a Django expert. By reading this book, you’ll learn the skills needed to develop powerful websites quickly, with code that is clean and easy to maintain. This book is also a programmer’s manual that provides complete coverage of the current Long Term Support (LTS) version of Django. For developers creating applications for commercial and business critical deployments, Mastering Django: Core provides a complete, up-to-date resource for Django 1.8LTS with a stable code-base, security fixes and support out to 2018.
Table of Contents (33 chapters)
Mastering Django: Core
Credits
About the Author
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Free Chapter
1
Introduction to Django and Getting Started

Setting up the cache


The cache system requires a small amount of setup. Namely, you have to tell it where your cached data should live; whether in a database, on the filesystem or directly in memory. This is an important decision that affects your cache's performance.

Your cache preference goes in the CACHES setting in your settings file.

Memcached

The fastest, most efficient type of cache supported natively by Django, Memcached (for more information visit http://memcached.org/) is an entirely memory-based cache server, originally developed to handle high loads at LiveJournal.com and subsequently open-sourced by Danga Interactive. It's used by sites such as Facebook and Wikipedia to reduce database access and dramatically increase site performance.

Memcached runs as a daemon and is allotted a specified amount of RAM. All it does is provide a fast interface for adding, retrieving and deleting data in the cache. All data is stored directly in memory, so there's no overhead of database or filesystem...