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Asynchronous cache failover example
// asynchronous version
asynchronousCache.get("id:3244", function(err, myThing) {
if (myThing == null) {
asynchronousDB.query("SELECT * from something WHERE id = 3244", function(err, myThing) {
// We now have a thing from DB, do something with result
doSomething(myThing);
});
} else {
// We have a thing from cache, do something with result
doSomething(myThing);
}
});
function doSomething(myThing) {
// gee that wasn't so hard, was it
}
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