Scaling Django

This document provides a summary of Mike Malone's talk on scaling Django web apps. It discusses how Pownce scaled to handle hundreds of requests per second and thousands of database operations per second while serving millions of users, relationships, notes, and terabytes of static data. It also covers some of the common bottlenecks Pownce encountered and eliminated in scaling their Django application, including using caching, load balancing, and queuing to improve performance and scalability.