How do you capacity plan for Layer caching?

Capacity planning for layer caching involves estimating the demand for cached data and ensuring the caching layers can handle that demand efficiently. By analyzing historical data usage patterns, growth trends, and application performance metrics, you can design a caching strategy that optimizes resource consumption and improves application response times.

A good approach includes evaluating the following factors:

  • User load and traffic patterns.
  • Cache eviction policies and their impact on performance.
  • Size of the data being cached and its variation over time.
  • Monitoring tools to track cache hits and misses.

Below is an example of how to use caching with a simple PHP application:

<?php // Start the session session_start(); // Check if the cached session data exists if (isset($_SESSION['data'])) { $data = $_SESSION['data']; } else { // Simulating data fetching from a database $data = fetchDataFromDatabase(); // Cache the data for future use $_SESSION['data'] = $data; } function fetchDataFromDatabase() { // Simulate fetching data from database return "This is cached data."; } echo $data; ?>

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