Custom Response Caching Using NCache in ASP.NET Core

By Joydip Kanjilal

Key Takeaways

• Caching is a technique for improving web application performance by temporarily storing requested data in memory for later reuse.
• Response caching refers to specifying cache-related headers on HTTP responses made by ASP.NET Core MVC actions.
• NCache is a cross-platform, open-source distributed caching framework from Alachisoft, built entirely using .NET.  
• This article presents a discussion on how we can work with NCache and response caching middleware in ASP.NET Core.

NCache is a cross-platform, open-source distributed caching framework from Alachisoft. It is an extremely fast distributed caching framework that is linearly scalable. This article presents a discussion on how we can work with NCache and response caching middleware in ASP.NET Core.

Pre-requisites

You should have Visual Studio and ASP.NET Core installed in your system to work with the code examples discussed in this article. As of this writing, ASP.NET Core 3.0 has been released. You can download ASP.NET Core from here.

You can download Visual Studio 2019 from here.