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Caching

Serving concurrent API responses, especially for high-traffic endpoints usually results in the following:

  • Increased latency: in latency, which increases loading times and bounce rates for your API consumers.
  • Reduced performance: A lag in performance which reduces user experience.
  • Server overload: More requests on the origin server increases server load, thus increasing resource consumption and overall costs.

This calls for a need for caching, to help store high-traffic endpoints to serve frequently accessed content to improve page loading times and reduce overall load on servers.

This tutorial offers a guide on using the plugins available for caching your APIs on the Stargate API gateway.

Cache plugins​

Stargate offers numerous plugins for you to help build a robust caching strategy for your different business use cases. These include:

  • graphql-cache: This plugin efficiently caches graphql responses for better latency and performance.
  • distributed-cache: This plugin selects and implements a caching strategy caches content based on configured rules.

Next steps​

Learn more about these plugins and how to enable them for improving your web and app APIs performance.