Testing caching

27 Mar 2006

I was planning on spending ages improving the caching on KnowledgeTree by adding caching to our entity and query layer and testing as I go. Brad immediately realises that we can be courageous about this if we turn caching on for our entity/ORM layer, and our testing is simply doing the work anyway and comparing to the cached result. Number of problems encountered so far? About three. Time saved? Days. Now why couldn't I think of that?

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Hi, I'm Neil Blakey-Milner, a technology generalist most interested by open source, security, and building scalable systems (especially if I get to use the Python programming language).

I "work" at the incredibly fun web-sites-for-everyone startup SynthaSite based in beautiful Cape Town, South Africa.

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