diff --git a/Makefile b/Makefile
index a29bbbb0..21eee0a5 100644
--- a/Makefile
+++ b/Makefile
@@ -49,6 +49,9 @@ docker_migrate:
 docker_backend_shell:
 	docker compose run --rm backend bash
 
+docker_backend_manage:
+	docker compose run --rm backend python manage.py $(ARG)
+
 docker_backend_update_schema:
 	docker compose run --rm backend python manage.py spectacular --color --file schema.yml
 
@@ -57,3 +60,6 @@ docker_frontend_shell:
 
 docker_frontend_update_api:
 	docker compose run --rm frontend pnpm run openapi-ts
+
+docker_redis_clear:
+	docker compose exec result redis-cli FLUSHDB
diff --git a/backend/Dockerfile b/backend/Dockerfile
index 6fec1b2e..5b2dfa0c 100644
--- a/backend/Dockerfile
+++ b/backend/Dockerfile
@@ -27,4 +27,4 @@ WORKDIR /home/user/app/backend
 COPY backend/ /home/user/app/backend
 
 USER user
-CMD gunicorn {{project_name}}.wsgi --log-file - -b 0.0.0.0:8000 --reload
+CMD gunicorn {{project_name}}.wsgi --log-file - --access-logfile - --access-logformat '%(t)s %(h)s "%(r)s" %(s)s %(b)s %(L)ss' -b 0.0.0.0:8000 --reload
diff --git a/backend/project_name/settings/base.py b/backend/project_name/settings/base.py
index b8404034..fb05c397 100644
--- a/backend/project_name/settings/base.py
+++ b/backend/project_name/settings/base.py
@@ -124,13 +124,21 @@ def base_dir_join(*args):
     "SERVE_INCLUDE_SCHEMA": False,
 }
 
+CACHES = {
+    "default": {
+        "BACKEND": "django.core.cache.backends.redis.RedisCache",
+        "LOCATION": config("REDIS_URL", default="redis://result:6379/1"),
+    }
+}
+
+SESSION_ENGINE = "django.contrib.sessions.backends.cached_db"
+
 LANGUAGE_CODE = "en-us"
 
 TIME_ZONE = "UTC"
 
 USE_I18N = True
 
-
 USE_TZ = True
 
 STATICFILES_DIRS = (base_dir_join("../frontend", "webpack_bundles"),)
diff --git a/backend/project_name/settings/test.py b/backend/project_name/settings/test.py
index 9bd68899..e4ceeeaa 100644
--- a/backend/project_name/settings/test.py
+++ b/backend/project_name/settings/test.py
@@ -26,3 +26,11 @@
 # Celery
 CELERY_TASK_ALWAYS_EAGER = True
 CELERY_TASK_EAGER_PROPAGATES = True
+
+# Use in-memory cache for tests
+CACHES = {
+    "default": {
+        "BACKEND": "django.core.cache.backends.locmem.LocMemCache",
+        "LOCATION": "test-cache",
+    }
+}