LessCache

Serverless cache backend for Django and Flask

Working with: AWS Dynamodb

Installation

pip

pip install lesscache

pipenv

pipenv install lesscache

Setup on Django

On Django Settings

instaled_apps = [
    ...
    'lesscache.compact.django'
]

CACHES = {
    'default': {
        'BACKEND': 'lesscache.compact.django.cache.DjangoCacheDynamodb',
        'TIMEOUT': 120  # default 120 seconds == 2minutes
        'KEY_PREFIX': 'less'  # default less
        'VERSION': 1  # default 1
        'KEY_FUNCTION': 'path.to.function' # f'{prefix}:{key}:{version}'

        'OPTIONS': {
            'aws_access_key_id': None       # need only if you dont have login
            'aws_secret_access_key': None   # on aws-cli with your key
            'aws_region_name': None         # or not in aws lambda

            'read_capacity_units': 1
            'write_capacity_units': 1
            'encode': 'path.to.encode'  # default: 'lesscache.encode.PickleEncode
        }
    }
}

Run manage command to create cache table on Dynamodb before using

python manage.py create_dynamodb_cache

Setup on Flask

WIP

How to contribute

WIP