Using Redis as a Data Caching Server

Everyone knows how important caching is in computing. We are surrounded by caching managers here, there and everywhere. You've got your CPU caching in the form of L1 and L2 cache which stores the next bit of data the CPU needs. GPUs have a cache. All hard drives come equipped with an on-board cache....

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Code and Music

Do you listen to music when you code? I do. For me, there is no better experience of falling into a code-hole while being wisked away by a backing track of your liking. I find the two compliment each other. If you have a sufficiently meaty problem and an inkling of how you're going to solve it, music can sweep away time. You tumble down that code-hole and before you know it, you look up and...

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SeriLog & Application Diagnostic Logging

Show me an application that doesn't log anything and i'll show you an application which is hard to debug. Every application we write should have a healthy sprinkling of diagnostic logging embedded throughout its logic. A trace to show us what's happening on the inside from the outside. In the past,...

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