Chapter 8. Building a Social news Site

(Topics introduced: This chapter uses techniques learnt in previous chapters, and introduce Caching and Testing.)

Diving in. [Code listing]

Introduce caching.

The various caching backends. Page level caching. More granular caching.

Introduce testing for Django.

Testing Django models using doctests, and unittests. Testing Django views.

Walking though the code. In this chapter, we walk through the code, to see how all these fit together.

Performance tuning the code.

Logging the queries used, through a middleware. When select related makes sense. Profiling Django applications.