Caching best practices

A cache is a place where you can store temporal data; it is used to increase the performance of the applications. Here, you can find some small tips to help you with your cache.

Performance impact

Adding a cache layer to your application always has a performance impact that you need to measure. It does not matter where you are adding the cache layer in your application. You need to measure the impact to know if the new cache layer is a good choice. First, make some metrics without the cache layer and, as soon as you have some stats, enable the cache layer and compare the result. Sometimes you can find that the benefit of a cache layer becomes a hell of management to keep the cache running. You can use some of the monitoring services we talked about in the previous chapters to monitor the performance impact.

Handle cache misses

A cache miss is when a request is not saved in your cache and the application needs to get the data from your service/application. Ensure that your...