article thumbnail

The Power of Caching: Boosting API Performance and Scalability

DZone

Caching is the process of storing frequently accessed data or resources in a temporary storage location, such as memory or disk, to improve retrieval speed and reduce the need for repetitive processing. Bandwidth optimization: Caching reduces the amount of data transferred over the network, minimizing bandwidth usage and improving efficiency.

Cache 246
article thumbnail

How DoorDash Rearchitected its Cache to Improve Scalability and Performance

InfoQ

DoorDash rearchitected the heterogeneous caching system they were using across all of their microservices and created a common, multi-layered cache providing a generic mechanism and solving a number of issues coming from the adoption of a fragmented cache. By Sergio De Simone

Cache 109
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

How RevenueCat Manages Caching for Handling over 1.2 Billion Daily API Requests

InfoQ

RevenueCat extensively uses caching to improve the availability and performance of its product API while ensuring consistency. The company shared its techniques to deliver the platform, which can handle over 1.2 billion daily API requests. By Rafal Gancarz

Cache 105
article thumbnail

Hashnode Creates Scalable Feed Architecture on AWS with Step Functions, EventBridge and Redis

InfoQ

Hashnode created a scalable event-driven architecture (EDA) for composing feed data for thousands of users. The company used serverless services on AWS, including Lambda, Step Functions, EventBridge, and Redis Cache. The solution leverages Step Functions' distributed maps feature that enables high-concurrency processing.

article thumbnail

Supporting Diverse ML Systems at Netflix

The Netflix TechBlog

Occasionally, these use cases involve terabytes of data, so we have to pay attention to performance. The user can choose the most suitable tool for manipulating data, such as Pandas or Polars to use a dataframe API, or one of our internal C++ libraries for various high-performance operations.

Systems 226
article thumbnail

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance

Smashing Magazine

Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. Five Data-Loading Patterns To Improve Frontend Performance. When it comes to performance, you shouldn’t be stingy. On design systems, UX, web performance and CSS/JS. Active Memory Caching. Using the cache as permanent storage is an anti-pattern.

Cache 126
article thumbnail

MySQL Performance Tuning 101: Key Tips to Improve MySQL Database Performance

Percona

While there is no magic bullet for MySQL performance tuning, there are a few areas that can be focused on upfront that can dramatically improve the performance of your MySQL installation. What are the Benefits of MySQL Performance Tuning? Experiencing database performance issues?

Tuning 52