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Sure, but the idea is knowing how and when to use your tools properly and what they're good for. It allows us to continue using Django.

Out of the box Drupal didn't used to play well with Varnish, so that was not a trivial task even if Varnish did the heavy lifting. For serving a cached asset from memory it's going to be really hard to beat Varnish on speed.

Still, Django at 15K is good.