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Mastering ASP.NET Web API

You're reading from   Mastering ASP.NET Web API Build powerful HTTP services and make the most of the ASP.NET Core Web API platform

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Product type Paperback
Published in Aug 2017
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781786463951
Length 330 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Malendra Hurbuns Malendra Hurbuns
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Mithun Pattankar Mithun Pattankar
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Preface 1. Introduction to Microservices and Service-Oriented Architecture 2. Understanding HTTP and REST FREE CHAPTER 3. Anatomy of ASP.NET Core Web API 4. Controllers, Actions, and Models 5. Implementing Routing 6. Middleware and Filters 7. Perform Unit and Integration Testing 8. Web API Security 9. Integration with Database 10. Error Handling, Tracing, and Logging 11. Optimization and Performance 12. Hosting and Deployment 13. Modern Web Frontends

Implementing in-memory caching

Accessing resources is an expensive operation, it's even more expensive when the resource is requested frequently, and when it gets hardly updated. For a better performing Web API, it's essential to reduce the burden of accessing the least-updated resource by implementing a caching mechanism.

The caching concept helps in improving the performance and scalability of an app by reducing the work required to generate content.

ASP.NET Core provides a web server based memory caching technique called in-memory caching. The cache of content takes place on web server memory by using the IMemoryCache interface.

The in-memory caching is a good choice for limited use; applications that are not hosted on a web farm. It's fast, yet simple to use. Just dependency inject the IMemoryCache interface into the Controller/ class. The following code snippet...

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