========= Cacheback

Asynchronous cache refreshing for Django

What does this library do?

It's an extensible caching library that refreshes stale cache items asynchronously using a Celery_ or rq_ task (utilizing django-rq). The key idea being that it's better to serve a stale item (and populate the cache asynchronously) than block the response process in order to populate the cache synchronously.

.. _Celery: http://celeryproject.org/ .. _rq: http://python-rq.org/

Using this library, you can rework your views so that all reads are from cache - which can be a significant performance boost.

A corollary of this technique is that cache hammering can be handled simply and elegantly, avoiding sudden surges of expensive reads when a cached item becomes stale.

Do you have good docs?

Yup - over on readthedocs.org_.

.. _over on readthedocs.org: http://django-cacheback.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

Supported versions

Python 3.6+ is supported. Django 2.0+ is supported.

Do you have tests?

You betcha!

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Can I use this in my project?

Probably - subject to the MIT license_.

.. _MIT license: https://github.com/codeinthehole/django-cacheback/blob/master/LICENSE

I want to contribute!

Brilliant! Here are the contributing guidelines_.

.. _contributing guidelines: http://django-cacheback.readthedocs.org/en/latest/contributing.html