Tag: caching

How to Optimize an API

Optimization can mean a lot of things like simplifying a process, reducing data and even speeding up response time.

An API often has three different ways we can optimize it.

The goal of caching is to avoid having to generate the same response twice.

In this blog article we look at five techniques for caching in a RESTful api.

For the majority of websites, a great amount of the content doesn’t change from day to day or even month to month.

When a site gets a lot of repeat traffic we can dramatically reduce the load and costs by caching.