DjangoCon Europe 2023 | Caching everywhere

Caching everywhere
by Iuri de Silvio
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How to cache things everywhere. From basic Django cache framework to function memoizing, custom application caching, django-cacheback, webserver caching, CDN, geolocation tricks.
Caching is a broad subject and it is difficult to understand what, where and when to cache something. It involves tricks with cookies, HTTP headers, CDN specifics.
It is an opinionated overview about all these options and how they helped my projects to scale.
Django cache framework basics
Basic memoization
How to lazy cache with django-cacheback
How to use "stale while update" and other types of otimizations
How to hack around your webserver (like nginx) to improve your cache hits
How to use CDN and optimize with surrogate headers
How to cache based on geolocation or other user parameters
How to architect pages for caching