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Tower Defense: Cache Control

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59 points jasonthorsness | 1 comments | 13 May 25 12:59 UTC | HN request time: 0.895s | 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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hangonhn ◴[16 May 25 19:07 UTC] No.44008825[source]▶
It's so obvious once I've heard someone else say it but wow that's really clever actually.
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1. thr0waway2i ◴[17 May 25 00:24 UTC] No.44011016[source]▶
Before "The Cloud" taught people to split everything into dedicated VMs, it was common to run multiple services on the same machine.