Accelerating applications with edge caching
Introduction Quick responses are essential to creating rich user experiences. In fact, research by Portent suggests that your business can double its revenue by simply bringing down page load times to under a second. On the flip side, a delay of even a millisecond can sometimes lead to devastating consequences. For instance, any interruption or delay in communication with an autonomous vehicle’s IoT sensors could result in accidents. So how can we deliver the minimal application response times that users today have come to expect, be it for streaming a media-rich web application or running a complex banking application? In this paper, we look at one possible solution to the problem of delayed application response times: caching. The first section takes a detailed look at caching — how it can make applications respond faster, various use cases, and benefits. Next, we cover the different kinds of caches, from basic private caches to distributed caches. However, traditional caching canno...