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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 ...

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