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Session Backend Cost Tradeoff For a low-traffic Django project, the default database-backed session engine writes to the django_session table on every request that touches the session, which can dominate database costs even when overall traffic is modest. The signed_cookies backend moves session data into a signed cookie, eliminating that per-request databas