The cloud-based computing of 2016 puts a premium on memory. Gigabytes of empty
space is left on disks as processes vie for memory. Among these processes is
Memcached (and sometimes Redis) which is used as a cache. Wouldn't it be nice
to leverage empty disk space for caching?
Django is Python's most popular web framework and ships with several caching
backends. Unfortunately the file-based cache in Django is essentially
broken. The culling method is random and large caches repeatedly scan a cache
directory which slows linearly with growth. Should it really take ~60ms to
store a key in a cache with a thousand items?
In Python, we can do better. And we can do it in pure-Python!
Based on the "Caching" category.
Alternatively, view DiskCache alternatives based on common mentions on social networks and blogs.
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