> Some light load testing (with (ab -n 1000 -c 1) shows that right now we can serve about 2-3 requests per second (on a ~$10/month VM).
> After turning on template caching, it seems like the site can now pretty easily handle 12 requests per second or so without using all of the CPU. I have not carefully benchmarked the before and after but it seems like it’s made a pretty big difference.
That seems crazy low, I think there has to be something else going on here.
Good ole Django. Worked with a number of frameworks (tm), but nothing really quite scratches my itch like Django does. I still find the ORM and database migration system unmatched.
> After turning on template caching, it seems like the site can now pretty easily handle 12 requests per second or so without using all of the CPU. I have not carefully benchmarked the before and after but it seems like it’s made a pretty big difference.
That seems crazy low, I think there has to be something else going on here.