[andybak]

It's always interesting to see how someone elses tackles something. Personally I'd probably have used Pjax or intercooler.js for that. I assume the ajax-ey part is simply to avoid full page reloads and improve the general speed? Other than that it's fairly static content?

(would be interesting to compare the performance of this vs static site generator output on a really fast CDN - my hunch would be that this would probably win unless you were at a geographic disadvantage)

[mozumder]

It's static content (for now... the site is being designed for user-generated content.), but page generation times without caching is about 1-2ms (3-7ms with gzip), and I'm actually speeding that further with materialized database views, probably down to 500us. With Redis caching it's in the 350us range. Those are latency numbers. So, it's about as fast as it gets.

Note that I don't use the Django Templating system at all, and generate pages in Python instead.

I already went through a viral moment that caused our site to go down for a day after our last issue (we're a print magazine), and so the site is being designed to work around that.