Through this short and introductory article, I would like to mention how caching can be achieved in Node.js applications using Redis and how our applications can benefit from it in terms of performance.
What Is Cache and How Can it Help us?
With a few words, we can say that cache is the process with which data is stored temporarily at a storage component area in order to be used in future mutch more faster. E.g. if we have some data coming from a third-party API, and that data won’t be changed in the “near future,” we can store them in cache once we retrieve them and avoid unnecessary service calls. In this way, we do not have to wait for the API call to complete, as we already have them, and we can retrieve them from cache. This will make our application much faster and more performant.
Cold, hard cache
Through this short and introductory article, I would like to mention how caching can be achieved in Node.js applications using Redis and how our applications can benefit from it in terms of performance.
What Is Cache and How Can it Help us?
With a few words, we can say that cache is the process with which data is stored temporarily at a storage component area in order to be used in future mutch more faster. E.g. if we have some data coming from a third-party API, and that data won’t be changed in the “near future,” we can store them in cache once we retrieve them and avoid unnecessary service calls. In this way, we do not have to wait for the API call to complete, as we already have them, and we can retrieve them from cache. This will make our application much faster and more performant. […]