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Jan 2022
1h 14m

125 - Object Caching Systems

Patrick Wheeler and Jason Gauci
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Many people have heard the names "redis" or "memcached" but fewer people know what these tools are good for or why we need them so badly. In this show, Patrick and I explain why caching is so important and how these systems work under the hood. 
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