SMRTR ProgrammingMar 22, 2026Pecar Blog

Speeding Up Django Startup Times with Lazy Imports

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Fancer reduced their Django app startup time from 10 seconds to 2.17 seconds by using Python's importtime tool and moving heavy third-party SDK imports inline within functions.

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