Introducing Play Framework: Java Web Application Development

© Prem Kumar Karunakaran 2020

P. K. KarunakaranIntroducing Play Frameworkhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5645-9_11

11. Working with Cache

Prem Kumar Karunakaran¹ 

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Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India

 

Caching is one of the most important aspects in ensuring the scalability and responsiveness of the application. A good cache can take load off your database and can serve the user pretty fast. A framework that doesn’t provide a good abstraction to work with cache is no longer fit for enterprise-class development. Play, with its in-built support for cache, is an ideal framework for building highly scalable, responsive, enterprise-class applications.

Play provides a global cache object and it works with the underlying cache implementation. This abstraction ...