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Web Development

Learning Notes #64 - E-Tags and Last-Modified Headers

Today morning, i started with a video on E-Tags (came as first in youtube suggestion). In this blog i jot down my notes on E-Tags and how it helps in…

Jan 20, 2025 · 3 min read
Redis

Learning Notes #53 - The Expiration Time Can Be Unexpectedly Lost While Using Redis SET EX

Redis, a high-performance in-memory key-value store, is widely used for caching, session management, and various other scenarios where fast data retr…

Jan 12, 2025 · 2 min read
Programming

Will --no-cache-dir in pip helps in reducing size of docker image ?

Problem Faced: I was trying to reduce the docker size of a python application. In those one of the methods, i was struck by an idea of remove pip cac…

Jun 26, 2024 · 3 min read
Redis

REDIS: WRITE BEHIND CACHE

Note: Its same as write through cache . Only difference is its asynchronous in inserting the values to mongodb. Its an Application level caching, whe…

Jun 15, 2024 · 3 min read
Redis

REDIS: WRITE THROUGH CACHE

Its an Application level caching, where the application writes the data directly to the redis; and redis will write to the primary db (mongodb in our…

Jun 15, 2024 · 3 min read