How to use memcached in Django?

This answer explains how to install Memcached on Windows 10 and how to integrate it with Django through a specific client. It was validated using Memcached 1.4.4, Python 2.7 and Django 1.11.

In your Django project, under settings.py, add the following code in the bottom of the file

SESSIONS_ENGINE='django.contrib.sessions.backends.cache'

CACHES = {
    'default': {
        'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.MemcachedCache',
        'LOCATION': '127.0.0.1:11211',
    }
}

Install memcached client for Python with your virtual environment active (python-memcached)
```
pip install python-memcached
```
Download Memcached using one of the following download links and extract it to a particular folder

Open that folder location in the Terminal or PowerShell and run
```
.\memcached.exe -h
```

you should get something like this

Run the following command (-m is for the amount of memory you want to dedicate and -vvv is for extreme verbose)
```
.\memcached.exe -m 512 -vvv
```

In the view you want to use cache, specify it in urls.py like

from django.conf.urls import include, url
from django.views.decorators.cache import cache_page

from .views import IndexView

urlpatterns = [
    url(r'^$', cache_page(60*60)(IndexView.as_view()), name="index"),
]

Go to the Django project, start the server and you should get much better results in your Time load.

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