dogpile.cache author here. The way dogpile does this is that your decorator is configured in terms of a cache region object, which you configure with backend a

dogpile.cache author here. The way dogpile does this is that your decorator is configured in terms of a cache region object, which you configure with backend and options at runtime. https://dogpilecache.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/usage.html#region-configuration https://dogpilecache.sqlalchemy.org/en/latest/usage.html#reg... I got this general architectural concept from my Java days, observing what EHCache did (that's where the word "region" comes from).