Go-cache is an in-memory key:value store/cache similar to memcached that is
suitable for applications running on a single machine. Its major advantage is
that, being essentially a thread-safe map[string]interface{} with expiration
times, it doesn't need to serialize or transmit its contents over the network.
Any object can be stored, for a given duration or forever, and the cache can be
safely used by multiple goroutines.
Although Go-cache isn't meant to be used as a persistent datastore, the entire
cache can be saved to and loaded from a file (using c.Items() to retrieve the
items map to serialize, and NewFrom() to create a cache from a deserialized one)
to recover from downtime quickly. (See the docs for NewFrom() for caveats.)
This package contains the source code needed for building packages that
reference the following Go import paths:
– github.com/patrickmn/go-cache
