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Integrated Circuit

Why caching? The main purpose of caching is to prevent expensive calls. Caching data means, we don’t fetch any data that we already know of. A cache is like steroids for data retrieval, it can boost the performance of an application like a rocket. But it comes at its cost: the downside of caching is […]

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The Blackboard Pattern

You can find a lot of descriptions of the common patterns like MVC, strategy, factory, adapter etc. on the internet. The blackboard pattern is one of the not so common patterns. This is why I want to take a closer look on it. It can be categorized as a behavioral pattern. The blackboard pattern describes […]