Setting up Flask Caching with Google App Engine

[scoofy]

Hey, so, I run a flask app on App Engine and my database has been growing. I try to cache my database results, and I've been using simplecache forever because I can't seem to get flask caching and App Engine's memcache at all. I can see from the changelogs that it is supported, but I'm not sure in how. I think the size of my simplecache may be becoming an issue for my instance as has been having some memory overflows lately.

Anyway, can I use flask caching with the builtin memcache offered via

from google.appengine.api import memcache

I can see from the docs that MemcachedCache has an option for CACHE_MEMCACHED_SERVERS, but I'm guessing that would only be applicable to memcache on Cloud Memorystore. Is it possible to use the built in memcache? Is that even significantly different from simplecache?

Anyway, I've been very confused about this for some time now, and I thought I would reach out.

Thanks,
Matt