High Performance Django

This document discusses techniques for improving the performance of Django projects handling high traffic volumes. It identifies common areas of concern like database usage, web server configuration, caching, and template rendering. It provides examples of optimizing database queries, implementing caching strategies, profiling code to identify bottlenecks, and leveraging tools like memcached, Varnish, and multiple web servers. The key lessons are to carefully design caching and database access, use profiling to find problematic areas rather than prematurely optimizing, and leverage server configuration expertise.