Cody Soyland discussing the many caching options available to you as a Django developer and provides some benchmarks using his current deployment stack... "Caching is one of the first things you can do when you need to start thinking about scaling. Among efforts such as query minimization, denormalization, code optimizations, compression, database tuning, indexing, and load balancing, caching remains one of the lowest hanging fruits in methods to lighten your server load and handle huge amounts of traffic."