https://alastaircrabtree.com/tags/memorycache/ Recent content in MemoryCache on Alastair's Blog Hugo -- gohugo.io en-gb Fri, 12 Jul 2019 14:29:47 +0000 https://alastaircrabtree.com/posts/absolute-cache-expiry-corrupts-absolutely/ Fri, 12 Jul 2019 14:29:47 +0000 https://alastaircrabtree.com/posts/absolute-cache-expiry-corrupts-absolutely/ Should you specify absolute expiry of a cache item from the current time or from the current time in the UTC time zone? The answer may not be what you expect. https://alastaircrabtree.com/posts/cache-the-result-of-an-async-method-using-lazycache/ Fri, 30 Sep 2016 07:00:00 +0000 https://alastaircrabtree.com/posts/cache-the-result-of-an-async-method-using-lazycache/ The latests release of LazyCache, my open source cache library based on ObjectCache, makes it easy to cache the results of asynchronous or Task returning methods, so now it is simpler for you to speed up your application. Why bother with Async? Async code tends to be more efficient as you release threads while they are waiting for the response from an asynchronous resource, but at a cost of added code complexity. https://alastaircrabtree.com/posts/the-easy-way-to-add-caching-to-net-application-and-make-it-faster-is-called-lazycache/ Mon, 23 May 2016 20:05:00 +0000 https://alastaircrabtree.com/posts/the-easy-way-to-add-caching-to-net-application-and-make-it-faster-is-called-lazycache/ tl;dr If you need to speed up your c# application you probably need to add caching, and the easiest way to do that is use the source library I wrote called LazyCache. Do I need to cache? Lots of apps don’t need caching because web servers and databases are fast. However many apps get to a point where performance becomes an issue, and adding caching is one easy way to get a significant performance boost.