Have you taken a look at Beaker? You can cache slow functionsthen, so that only parts of a request are cached as needed. It's easier to use with django now as well, I just blogged about it's use as a library on groovie.org
Greg Allard
· 8 months ago
I haven't gotten into caching and increasing performance of my application code itself; I was starting with the server. Thanks for the suggestion. When I do get around to speeding up slow parts of my code, I'll keep Beaker in mind.
Thanks. I've never been to tutlist before. Sounds like a good idea.
Tim Rosenblatt
· 8 months ago
Great post, even for us non-Djangoers.
One other tip on the serving-static-files thing: move them off your server entirely and don't even use the processing power. Store them on S3. From there, you can use the CDN and map multiple subdomains to the content, so you can spread your requests across multiple subdomains.
The reason for this is that web browsers will not open more than N connections to a given domain. Mapping them across multiple subdomains means that an image/static-heavy page will open even more connections and load concurrently.
Greg Allard
· 8 months ago
Yeah amazon's content distribution network is awesome and not a bad price. I'd like to hook that up sometime soon. I didn't know that subdomains would help with the browser limit. That's a good idea.
Greg Allard
· 8 months ago
I just installed django-memcache-status to see the usage of memcache in the django admin interface. It looks pretty good and it's easy to install. Just download it and add it to installed apps. http://github.com/bartTC/django-memcache-status/
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Great tutorial.
One other tip on the serving-static-files thing: move them off your server entirely and don't even use the processing power. Store them on S3. From there, you can use the CDN and map multiple subdomains to the content, so you can spread your requests across multiple subdomains.
The reason for this is that web browsers will not open more than N connections to a given domain. Mapping them across multiple subdomains means that an image/static-heavy page will open even more connections and load concurrently.