In a distributed cloud application with a fine-grained microservice architecture, distributed caching can provide much desired data coherence, as well as performance improvements. Generally speaking, the distribution of the infrastructure, the data model, as well as costs, are deciding factors regarding whether to use a distributed cache implementation.

ASP.NET Core offers various caching options, one of which is distributed caching. The available distributed cache options are as follows:

• Distributed memory cache
• Distributed SQL server cache
• Distributed Redis caches

While the memory cache is not a production-ready strategy, SQL and Redis can be viable options for a cloud application that's been developed with .NET Core. However, in the case of a NoSQL database and semi-structured data, Redis would be an ideal choice. Let's see how we can...