There are a few different levels of caching within Django. You might notice his graph has 'Django caching' in it.
It allows about 10x more requests.
His route seems to add another 10x worth of performance or something.
As to caching pages, timeouts, it is completely possible to cache things as they are created and make use of them. The timeout method is just the first, simplest way of caching saying (cache this one page for a minute, so when it gets YC'd, it only recalculates the page every minute)
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There are a few different levels of caching within Django. You might notice his graph has 'Django caching' in it.
It allows about 10x more requests.
His route seems to add another 10x worth of performance or something.
As to caching pages, timeouts, it is completely possible to cache things as they are created and make use of them. The timeout method is just the first, simplest way of caching saying (cache this one page for a minute, so when it gets YC'd, it only recalculates the page every minute)