Practical Tips for Navigating Strategies and Tradeoffs
Although caches and databases are distinctly different animals, databases have always cached data and caches are starting to use disks. How are their strengths – and use cases – evolving and how can your application best take advantage of each?
Join Alan Kasindorf (Memcached maintainer and Founder of Cache Forge) and Felipe Cardeneti Mendes (Technical Director at ScyllaDB and co-author of Database Performance at Scale) to explore a variety of caching options. We’ll cover how different approaches are architected, how that impacts their “sweet spot” and tradeoffs, as well as tips for working with them.
You will learn how to:
- Decide among common caching approaches for reducing application latency
- Understand the architecture decisions behind different caching approaches and how that impacts performance
- Determine where in the stack to cache and how caching can help the most
- Assess whether a cache or in-memory data store would be a good fit for your use case
