Nginx Microcaching

default.conf

# ...

# In Django you can tell the Nginx to not cache with:
# https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/2.0/topics/http/decorators/#module-django.views.decorators.cache

# Microcache - Want 150 requests/sec to become 1200?
# 
# https://www.nginx.com/blog/benefits-of-microcaching-nginx/
# http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_proxy_module.html#proxy_cache
proxy_cache_path /tmp/cache keys_zone=cache:10m max_size=10g levels=1:2 inactive=600s max_size=100m;
server {
    # ...
    # Microcache
    proxy_cache cache;
    proxy_cache_lock on;
    proxy_cache_valid 200 1s;
    proxy_cache_use_stale updating;
}