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Document performance impact of using DatabaseSessionHandler
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Description
Using the new DatabaseSessionHandler will have a slight performance impact on high traffic sites, and it may be better to use an alternative solution for handling sessions such as redis
Acceptance criteria:
- Add a warning in the documentation about the performance impact of using
DatabaseSessionHandleron high-traffic sites, and recommend performance testing.
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First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start in the developer documentation section covering DatabaseSessionHandler and locate the guidance for session handling. Add the warning about performance on high-traffic sites and the recommendation to performance-test or consider Redis; it is done when the acceptance criterion is reflected in the documentation.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- redis
- Domain
- documentation
- Issue type
- Documentation
- Difficulty
- 2/5
- Estimated time
- 1-3 hours
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Clearly specified
- Newbie friendliness
- 62/100