A Practical Guide to Caching with Django

In this practical guide to caching, we’re going to survey the theory of data caching. We’ll look at the following topics:

• what data caching is
• when your application will benefit from caching
• when caching is not advisable
• the components of a caching system
• basic caching theory
• cache invalidation and cache algorithms
• handling concurrency in data caches
• HTTP caches
• caching static web resources
• advanced caching systems such as Memcached and Redis

All of this theory is buttressed with some practical Django examples:

• using Django’s built-in cache facility
• implementing client-side caching with Django
• integrating Django and Memcached

This guide should provide you with a solid understanding of caching and enable you to effectively implement caching in your application.