diff --git a/app/utils/cache.py b/app/utils/cache.py
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+from pathlib import Path
+import hashlib
+import os
+import time
+import io
+import numpy as np
+
+
+def array_to_bytes(array):
+    """Convert np.array-like object to bytes (for use w/ caching infrastructure).
+
+    Parameters
+    ----------
+    array : list or numpy array-like object
+        Object to be converted to bytes
+    """
+    b = io.BytesIO()
+    np.save(b, array)
+    return b.getvalue()
+
+
+class Cache:
+    def __init__(self, cache_dir, max_items=None, max_age=None):
+        """
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        cache_dir : Path or str
+            Path to cache.  Will be created if necessary.
+        max_items : int, optional
+            Maximum number of items ever held in the cache.  If
+            unspecified, then the cache size is only controlled by
+            `max_age`. If zero, caching will be disabled.
+        max_age : int, optional
+            Maximum age (in seconds) of an item in the cache before it
+            gets removed.  If unspecified, the cache size is only
+            controlled by `max_items`.
+        """
+        cache_dir = Path(cache_dir)
+        if not cache_dir.is_dir():
+            cache_dir.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
+
+        self._cache_dir = Path(cache_dir)
+        self._max_items = max_items
+        self._max_age = max_age
+
+    def _hash_filename(self, filename):
+        m = hashlib.md5()
+        m.update(filename.encode('utf-8'))
+        return self._cache_dir / f'{m.hexdigest()}'
+
+    def __getitem__(self, name):
+        """Return item from the cache.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        name : str
+        """
+        self.clean_cache()
+        if name is None:
+            return None
+
+        # Cache is disabled, return nothing
+        if self._max_items == 0:
+            return None
+
+        cache_file = self._hash_filename(name)
+        if not cache_file.exists():
+            return None
+
+        cache_file.touch()  # Make newest in cache
+
+        return cache_file
+
+    def __setitem__(self, name, data):
+        """Insert item into cache.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        name : str
+            Name for this entry.
+        data : bytes
+            Bytes to be written to file associated with this entry.
+        """
+        # Cache is disabled, do not add entry
+        if self._max_items == 0:
+            return
+
+        fn = self._hash_filename(name)
+        with open(fn, 'wb') as f:
+            f.write(data)
+
+        self.clean_cache()
+
+    def _remove(self, filenames):
+        """Remove given items from the cache.
+
+        Parameters
+        ----------
+        filenames : list of str
+            Files to remove from the cache.
+        """
+        # fmt: off
+        for f in filenames:
+            try:
+                os.remove(f)
+            except FileNotFoundError:
+                pass
+        # fmt: on
+
+    def clean_cache(self):
+        # Remove stale cache files
+        cached_files = [
+            (f.stat().st_mtime, f.absolute()) for f in self._cache_dir.glob('*')
+        ]
+        cached_files = sorted(cached_files, key=lambda x: x[0], reverse=True)
+
+        now = time.time()
+
+        if self._max_age is not None:
+            removed_by_time = [
+                filename
+                for (mtime, filename) in cached_files
+                if (now - mtime) > self._max_age
+            ]
+            self._remove(removed_by_time)
+
+        if self._max_items is not None:
+            oldest = cached_files[self._max_items:]
+            self._remove([filename for (mtime, filename) in oldest])
+
+    def __len__(self):
+        return len(list(self._cache_dir.glob('*')))