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JCache Fundamentals

by Grant Little

This course will teach you the fundamentals of how you can use caching in your applications with the JCache standard, including basic operations, efficiently using your caches, and listening to changes in your data.

What you'll learn

At the core of a performant and scalable application is a thorough knowledge of how caching works. In this course, JCache Fundamentals, you will learn how to use caching within your application that meets the standard Java API. You will learn the building blocks of JCache, how to get data into and retrieve data from your caches efficiently, and finally, you'll learn how to receive events that indicate when your data changes. When you're finished with this course, you will have a foundational knowledge of the JCache API that will help you as you move forward to creating a performant and scalable solution that takes advantage of caching.

About the author

Grant has been working in the IT industry for over 15 years after qualifying with a Master in Engineering degree in 1999. His specialties primarily lie in designing and working with high transaction, real time, scalable, and distributed enterprise grade applications. He has worked in various companies including his own consultancy and is currently working with a large financial institution in the share trading space. He has a keen interest in Agile approaches and is a qualified scrum master. Gra... more

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