Microservices are long lived and having an in-memory cache can alleviate network calls and improve response time, depending on the kind of work being done. A sh

Microservices are long lived and having an in-memory cache can alleviate network calls and improve response time, depending on the kind of work being done. A shared cache like redis requires a network call obviously. One of our caching libs does just that: check memory, then check redis, then do the expensive data collection from source.