Using BoxLang’s Cache Services / / No Comments 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 → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: BoxLang's, cache, Services, using
Testing the Netlify Cache Plugin with Eleventy / / No Comments 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 → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: cache, Eleventy, Netlify, plugin, Testing
JavaScript CPU cache snooper tells crooks EVERYTHING you do online – The Register / / No Comments 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 → Posted in: JavaScript Tagged with: cache, crooks, EVERYTHING, JavaScript, online, Register, snooper, tells