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Tower Defense: Cache Control

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59 points jasonthorsness | 2 comments | 13 May 25 12:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.577s | source
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grep_it ◴[16 May 25 17:42 UTC] No.44008029[source]▶
> Why Not Redis? I have a single VPS, so I can get by with a simple SQLite database. If I had many instances of my API on separate servers

Just to push against this a bit. Redis can be very low memory cost and is very easy to run (I give it 5mb). I have a small single server with a few instances of my API that let's me cache pretty much everything I need.

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1. jasonthorsness ◴[16 May 25 18:13 UTC] No.44008331[source]▶
Huh, I never thought of running it just on the one same node. I guess that would better prepare for a scale-up later.
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2. johnmaguire ◴[16 May 25 19:02 UTC] No.44008786[source]▶
You may even be able to scale horizontally with many nginx+redis nodes, if the cache does not need to be shared.