https://medium.com/@hakibenita/optimizing-django-admin-paginator-53c4eb6bfca3

In almost every project we work on, we use Django admin for support and operations. Over time we experienced an influx of new users and the amount of data we had stored grew rapidly. With a large data set we started to experience the real cost of some of Django admin features.

I often talk about making Django scale but what does it actually mean? It means getting consistent performance regardless of the amount of data.