Tutorial vows caching revolution for housing portal, but first endure docker compose hell to boot a barebones django-nextjs demo

A comprehensive guide to building a high-performance housing portal using Django, Next.js, and Redis has been released, focusing on caching strategies to improve application performance. The tutorial starts from scratch, setting up a containerized monorepo with Django, Next.js, and PostgreSQL, using Docker Compose for orchestration. By creating a reproducible baseline, developers can apply various caching strategies to the application, including database query caching, HTTP response caching, and client-side caching. The guide emphasizes the importance of understanding caching decisions and their potential pitfalls, such as stale data and cache stampedes. With a branch-per-part Git strategy, developers can track the evolution of the system and review changes between different parts of the tutorial. The initial setup includes a Django 5.x project with DRF, a Next.js 14+ application with TypeScript, and a PostgreSQL 15 database, all containerized and orchestrated with Docker Compose. The next part of the tutorial will focus on updating settings.py to connect to PostgreSQL and Redis, designing a database schema, and seeding it with realistic data.