Caching Data
Explore how to implement data caching in an ASP.NET Core application to improve performance and reduce database queries. Learn to create and use a memory cache for storing questions, set cache limits, and understand how caching can optimize API responsiveness and scalability through load testing.
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In this section, we are going to cache requests for getting a question. At the moment, the database is queried for each request to get a question. If we cache a question and can get subsequent requests for the question from the cache, this should be faster and reduce the load on the database. We will prove this with load tests.
Load testing the current implementation
Before we implement caching, we are going to load test the current implementation of getting a single question using the following steps:
Let's start our REST API by pressing “F5” in Visual Studio.
Now, we ...