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1. Caching as an After-Thought Caching as an After-Thought

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   # Caching as an After-Thought

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   What happens when the speed of data access code and requests to the data store puts a cap on the total number of requests our apps can 

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   handle? We have a bunch of options of course, but they are costly and intrusive. Partitioning the data store is a delicate operation 

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   and requires a skilled DBA. Memory caching using local or distributed caching stores is awesome, of course, but can be time consuming. 

2. ifs-and-buts.md ifs-and-buts.md

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   ## Are IFs Bad For You?

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   No, they're not bad per se. However, in a world where the monolithic codebases of old have [increased to massive size](http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/million-lines-of-code/), calculating [McCabe scores](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyclomatic_complexity) shows us that as code ages nesting depth increases. Why is this? Well, what started as one little ```if```, or just a minor ```switch```, can quickly grow to become an unwieldy monster to maintain. Let's take the following piece of code as an example:

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   ```csharp

3. push-a-secret push-a-secret Public

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4. sun-to-usb-adapter sun-to-usb-adapter Public

   USB-to-Sun Keyboard Adapter using Arduino Micro

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5. skiss-project/framework skiss-project/framework Public

   A .NET framework for simple, kind of interactive, system specifications.

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6. guard-statements guard-statements Public

   Stuff you would normally put in a "Validation" assembly.

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