As far as Django goes, there hasn't been much tuning in general[0]. The only thing I see them doing is template caching. At the least they should be running 1.6

As far as Django goes, there hasn't been much tuning in general[0]. The only thing I see them doing is template caching. At the least they should be running 1.6 with persistent DB connections. Beyond that they have a lot of middleware enabled that isn't being used. [0]https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/tree/master/django https://github.com/TechEmpower/FrameworkBenchmarks/tree/mast...