Django migrations, friend or foe? Optimize your Django migrations for faster testing

Django migrations are a great tool, but after years of changes in a project they can become very numerous, slowing down tests. This talk explores how to optimize Django migrations for faster testing, addressing the challenges of numerous migrations impacting test suite performance. It covers various approaches and workarounds, including caching databases, altering migration settings, and squashing migrations, ultimately presenting a strategy for recreating migrations from scratch to significantly reduce test database creation times.