Efficient Django

Does Django scale? How to manage traffic peaks? What happens when the database grows too big? How to find (and fix) the bottlenecks?

We will overview the basics concepts, we’ll use metrics to find bottlenecks, and finally we’ll see some tips and tricks to improve the scalability and the performance of a Django project.

Main topics:

• System architecture
• Database performance
• Finding bottlenecks
• Monitoring, profiling, debugging
• Query optimization
• Dealing with a slow admin
• Queues and workers
• Faster tests

Slides: Efficient Django