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7th May 2009 - Link Blog

ericflo's django-tokyo-sessions. A Django sessions backend using Tokyo Cabinet, via Tokyo Tyrant and the PyTyrant library. A fast key/value store is a much better solution for sessions than a relational database.

Posted 7th May 2009 at 7:30 am

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