Summary

In this chapter, we learned how to set up a Redis server using RedisLabs. Redis is an important in-memory database used for different applications such as caching and throttling. We learned how to integrate Redis into native Django and use caching with Redis. The built-in support for caching in Django is not sufficient to add caching to APIs, but django-cacheops, a third-party package, can ease the caching implementation. We also learned how to set up django-cacheops with Redis and the best practices for using it in production.

Apart from caching, Redis is used for throttling, and we have learned how to set up throttling in Django and how to create custom application-level throttling. Logging in Django uses Python’s built-in logging module. It is a daunting task for developers to set up logging in Django, so we learned about the basic boilerplate logging setup that you can use in production to log messages. We will revisit logging setup again in Chapter 14, where...