Concepts#
These pages explain how the package works and why. Read them away from the keyboard.
🧭 How plone.memoize picks a cache
The one hook the package replaces, and what it leaves alone.
✅ What "shareable" means
Plain data goes to Redis; everything else stays in RAM.
🔀 Per-function routing
How each function learns where its values belong.
🛟 Failure model
What happens when Redis is slow, down, or full.
📋 Copies, not shared objects
Why a value read from Redis is a new object every time.
🔒 Security model
Who can write to the cache, and what a reader can be made to run.
🗺️ Which Plone caches land where
The cached functions in Plone, and the route each one takes.
🚫 When not to use it
Single instances, and keys that leave something out.