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First release of my App Engine library for easier memcaching of pages

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I've just pushed memcachablehandler to GitHub, which is a small Python App Engine library to make it easy to memcache pages - or images, or anything else you might serve up - and re-serve them without having to regenerate them from a Django template or suchlike. This should speed up response times ever so slightly, and also maybe make things more reliable as well (based on my personal experience with the memcache vs datastore availability).

The library is a slightly-tweaked version of some of the code that I've had in this blog for the past few days, so hopefully it's not too buggy. I know I'm not the first to write something like this - see the README for a link to something similar - but maybe it could come in useful to someone else?

I don't currently have any plans to extend the functionality beyond what's already there, but anything that gets updated in this blog should get pushed into that repo in fairly short order. At some point I'll probably make this blog code public as well, but I want to get it in a much more polished state before daring to show it to the world :-)

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This blog (mostly) covers technology and software development.

Note: I've recently ported the content from my old blog hosted on Google App Engine using some custom code I wrote, to a static site built using Pelican. I've put in place various URL manipulation rules in the webserver config to try to support the old URLs, but it's likely that I've missed some (probably meta ones related to pagination or tagging), so apologies for any 404 errors that you get served.

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I'm a software developer who's worked with a variety of platforms and technologies over the past couple of decades, but for the past 7 or so years I've focussed on web development. Whilst I've always nominally been a "full-stack" developer, I feel more attachment to the back-end side of things.

I'm a web developer for a London-based equities exchange. I've worked at organizations such as News Corporation and Google and BATS Global Markets. Projects I've been involved in have been covered in outlets such as The Guardian, The Telegraph, the Financial Times, The Register and TechCrunch.

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