Memfish

Memfish provides you a way to store values against the key for a short period of time (20 mins by default)

Memfish stands for memory of a fish. There is a theory that fish has a short memory span, around 3 seconds. However, recent research shows that potentially that's not true and fish can be trained to remember for up to 5 months.

That justifies us calling this library Memfish and relate to a fish which is training the memory and remembers things for 20 mins.

Installation

The package can be installed by adding memfish to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:memfish, "~> 0.1.0"}
  ]
end

To start memfish process before your application add to your mix.exs

def application do
  [
    extra_applications: [:memfish]
  ]
end

The docs can be found at https://hexdocs.pm/memfish.

Usecase

We use this library to provide an ability to remember jwt tokens for a short period of time and forget them once they have been used or expired.