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  • Memcached Internals Part-1 - Intro

    technical, memcached, cache, design  · 

    Memcached is a simple Key-Value store cache designed to be high performant and intended to augment a data store. In this series of posts, I will be talking about different aspects of this system.

    This is part-1 of the series and deals with understanding the problem Memcached is trying to solve and how to use it.

    Simple Intro...

  • Going Async in Python

    technical, python, asyncio, async, await, event-loop  · 

    In this post, I will be giving a briefing on async programming styles and dive into Python’s offerings in this regard. I’ll cover the basics of asyncio module and show code on how to get going with asyncio. A lot of what asyncio builds on top of is generators and co-routines. While it is important to know the base, we’ll...