[QUESTION]: Why did you choose ristretto as the project name ？ about ristretto HOT 2 CLOSED

After publishing the [blog post](https://blog.dgraph.io/post/caching-in-go/), we built a team to address the challenges mentioned therein and create a Go cache library worthy of being compared to non-Go cache implementations. In particular, [Caffeine](https://github.com/ben-manes/caffeine) which is a high performance, near-optimal caching library based on Java 8. It is being used by many Java-based databases, like Cassandra, HBase, and Neo4j. T[here](http://highscalability.com/blog/2016/1/25/design-of-a-modern-cache.html)’s an article about the design of Caffeine here.

Ristretto: Better Half of Espresso

We have since [read](https://dgraph.io/blog/refs/bp_wrapper.pdf) [the](https://dgraph.io/blog/refs/Adaptive%20Software%20Cache%20Management.pdf) [literature](https://dgraph.io/blog/refs/TinyLFU%20-%20A%20Highly%20Efficient%20Cache%20Admission%20Policy.pdf), extensively tested implementations and discussed every variable there is to consider in writing a cache library. And today, we are proud to announce that it is ready for the wider Go community to use and experiment with.