My Cache: Dictionary vs Redis Showdown

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My Cache: Dictionary vs Redis Showdown

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The eternal battle between junior and senior developers in one perfect frame. On the left, the panicked junior screaming about needing Redis for everything because they heard it's fast. On the right, the battle-hardened senior silently judging with that thousand-yard stare while implementing a simple Dictionary as cache. The beauty is in the simplicity—why spin up an entire Redis instance when a basic in-memory data structure will do? It's like bringing a tactical nuke to a pillow fight. The senior's face just screams "I've survived five framework rewrites and three CTOs who discovered microservices... your Redis enthusiasm doesn't impress me."

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