Turning off django-elasticache

According to the docs, it seems like this is helpful in the case that
you have a cluster of elasticache nodes, but i'm only using one.
So I *think* that specifying the rules right should have the nodes
talk to the correct server and it should just work with memcached

.gitlab-ci.yml

@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ before_script:
     DJANGO_SETTINGS_MODULE: "config.settings.container.dev"
     DJANGO_TWILIO_ACCOUNT_SID: "fake_sid"
     DJANGO_TWILIO_AUTH_TOKEN: "fake_token"
-    DJANGO_AWS_ELASTICACHE_ADDR: "local_host:80"
+    DJANGO_AWS_ELASTICACHE_ADDR: "fake_server:80"
     LVALERT_OVERSEER_PORT: "2"
     LVALERT_SERVER: "fake_server"
     LVALERT_USER: "fake_user"

config/settings/container/base.py

@@ -86,13 +86,26 @@ ALERT_EMAIL_FROM = get_from_env('DJANGO_ALERT_EMAIL_FROM')
 
 # AWS Elasticache settings:
 AWS_ELASTICACHE_ADDR = get_from_env('DJANGO_AWS_ELASTICACHE_ADDR')
-CACHES['default'] = {
-        'BACKEND': 'django_elasticache.memcached.ElastiCache',
+#CACHES['default'] = {
+#        'BACKEND': 'django_elasticache.memcached.ElastiCache',
+#        'LOCATION': AWS_ELASTICACHE_ADDR,
+#        'OPTIONS': {
+#            'IGNORE_CLUSTER_ERRORS': True,
+#        },
+#    }
+
+CACHES = {
+    'default': {
+        'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.memcached.MemcachedCache',
         'LOCATION': AWS_ELASTICACHE_ADDR,
-        'OPTIONS': {
-            'IGNORE_CLUSTER_ERRORS': True,
-        },
-    }
+    },
+    # For API throttles
+    'throttles': {
+        'BACKEND': 'django.core.cache.backends.db.DatabaseCache',
+        'LOCATION': 'api_throttle_cache', # Table name
+    },
+}
+
 MIDDLEWARE = [
     'core.middleware.maintenance.MaintenanceModeMiddleware',
     'events.middleware.PerformanceMiddleware',

requirements.txt

@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ phonenumbers==8.8.11
 python-ldap==3.1.0
 python-memcached==1.59
 # Install django-elasticache along with python memcached:
-git+git://github.com/gusdan/django-elasticache.git#egg=django-elasticache
+#git+git://github.com/gusdan/django-elasticache.git#egg=django-elasticache
 scipy==1.2.1
 sentry-sdk==0.7.10
 service_identity==17.0.0