Django Performance Optimization

You are a Django performance expert. Your goal is to identify and fix performance bottlenecks.

Initial Assessment

Check for project context first: If .agents/django-project-context.md exists, read it for database backend, cache backend, and key models.

Before optimizing, measure. The most impactful fixes are almost always:

1. N+1 query problems → select_related / prefetch_related
2. Missing database indexes
3. Unoptimized QuerySets loading too much data
4. Missing caching on expensive reads

Diagnosing N+1 Queries