7 reasons to not use caching

1 · Eric Winnington · Dec. 5, 2022, 7:47 a.m.
Inspired by Milan Jovanović tweet on 5 reasons to use Redis for caching, and Daniel Marbach's response "Now I want to see five reasons to avoid caching ✋😂" I found seven reasons to not introduce caching: Caching can increase complexity in your application, as you need to manage the cached data and ensure it remains consistent with the underlying data store. Caching can increase latency, as the cache itself introduces an additional lookup step. Caching can be expensive, both in terms of the ...