Using BoxLang’s Cache Services

Recently I’ve been looking at BoxLang’s Caching service, mostly because the docs were updated which made it easier to dig into it. 😉 My usual expectation for a caching service is typically a key/value system with APIs to get and set and hopefully a simple way to handle expiration. So for example, I can idealy store a cache value and an expiration values at the same time, and if I fetch it later and it’s expired, I get a nice null value back. As I said, that’s the ‘baseline’ for what I expect, so I was kind of blown away, and a bit overwhelmed honestly, with what you can do on the BoxLang platform. At a high level, here’s some of the details: Out of... more →
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Testing the Netlify Cache Plugin with Eleventy

For months now I’ve been meaning to check out, and try, the Netlify Caching plugin. This plugin lets you cache resources between builds saving you time when doing builds. I didn’t doubt it worked, but I needed to give it a try myself to see it in action. To test it out, I used Eleventy, but note that you can use any static site generator with the plugin. (It just won’t be as cool.) Raymond Camden… more →
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JavaScript CPU cache snooper tells crooks EVERYTHING you do online – The Register

The Register JavaScript CPU cache snooper tells crooks EVERYTHING you do onlineThe RegisterYossef Oren, Vasileios Kemerlis, Simha Sethumadhavan, and Angelos Keromytis came up with this side-channel attack, which can be performed by JavaScript served from a malicious web ad network. It works by studying the time it takes to access data … JavaScript – Google News… more →
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