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Antonio Melé
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Antonio Melé has been crafting Django projects since 2006, for clients spanning multiple industries. He is Engineering Director at Backbase, a leading global fintech firm dedicated to facilitating the digital transformation of financial institutions. He co-founded Nucoro, a digital wealth management platform. In 2009 Antonio founded Zenx IT, a company specialized in developing digital products. He has been working as CTO and consultant for several tech-centric startups. He has also managed development teams building projects for large enterprise clients. He has an MSc in Computer Science from Universidad Pontificia Comillas and completed the Advanced Management Program at MIT Sloan. His father inspired his passion for computers and coding.
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Django cache settings

Django provides the following cache settings:

  • CACHES: A dictionary containing all available caches for the project.
  • CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_ALIAS: The cache alias to use for storage.
  • CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_KEY_PREFIX: The prefix to use for cache keys. Set a prefix to avoid key collisions if you share the same cache between several sites.
  • CACHE_MIDDLEWARE_SECONDS: The default number of seconds to cache pages.

The caching system for the project can be configured using the CACHES settings. This setting allows you to specify the configuration for multiple caches. Each cache included in the CACHES dictionary can specify the following data:

  • BACKEND: The cache backend to use.
  • KEY_FUNCTION: A string containing a dotted path to a callable that takes a prefix, version, and key as arguments and returns a final cache key.
  • KEY_PREFIX: A string prefix for all cache keys, to avoid collisions.
  • LOCATION: The location of the...
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Antonio Melé

Antonio Melé has been crafting Django projects since 2006, for clients spanning multiple industries. He is Engineering Director at Backbase, a leading global fintech firm dedicated to facilitating the digital transformation of financial institutions. He co-founded Nucoro, a digital wealth management platform. In 2009 Antonio founded Zenx IT, a company specialized in developing digital products. He has been working as CTO and consultant for several tech-centric startups. He has also managed development teams building projects for large enterprise clients. He has an MSc in Computer Science from Universidad Pontificia Comillas and completed the Advanced Management Program at MIT Sloan. His father inspired his passion for computers and coding.
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