Microsoft Azure Developer: Implementing Azure Cache

Course Overview
Hi everyone, my name is Barry Luijbregts, and welcome to my course Microsoft Azure Developer: Implementing Azure Cache. I am an independent software developer and architect with a passion for the cloud. Caching is very important to make your application performant and to make it more available. In Azure, you use Azure Redis Cache for caching. In this course, you'll learn what Azure Redis Cache is and how to use it. Some of the major topics that we will cover include why you should cache data, what Azure Redis Cache is, and how you can implement Azure Redis Cache. By the end of this course, you'll know what Azure Redis Cache is and how to implement it in your application. Before beginning the course, you should have a basic level of understanding of software development in the Microsoft ecosystem and you should also know the basics of Microsoft Azure. I hope you'll join me on this journey to learn about Azure Redis Cache with the Microsoft Azure Developer: Implementing Azure Cache course here at Pluralsight.

Why Should We Cache Data?
Hi and welcome to this course about implementing Cache in Azure. I'm Barry and I am an independent software architect and developer. You can find me on Twitter @Azurebarry and on my personal website: Azurebarry. com. This course is all about caching with Azure and how to implement that in your application. We'll start off by talking about caching itself and why we do that. In the next modules, we take a look at using the Azure Redis Cache for our ASP. NET Core MVC application and for an ASP. NET Forms application that uses session state. Finally, we'll measure if the cache actually provides a performance increase. We'll do that with load tests in Visual Studio Team Services. Let's start at the beginning. We'll first talk about what caching actually is and why you would do it. We'll also cover some of the things that you should keep in mind when you implementing caching in your applications. And we'll take a look at the application that we are going to use for this course. Ready? Let's start learning about caching!

Implementing Azure Redis Cache
Let's dive into the meat of this course, implementing Azure Redis Cache because when you are talking about cache in Azure, you are talking about Azure Redis Cache. We'll go through the information that you need to implement Azure Redis Cache in your application. We'll start by talking about what Azure Redis Cache and what its capabilities are. I'll show you how to create it using the Azure portal. And then, I'll show you how to implement it in an application and how to work with it. Finally, we'll go over the concept of cache invalidation and I'll show you how to implement that with Azure Redis Cache. Ready? Let's dive in.

Using Redis Cache for Session State
You've seen how to implement Azure Redis Cache for an ASP. NET MVC application. Now let's take a look how to use Azure Redis Cache for storing session state in an ASP. NET Forms application. In this module, we'll first look at why storing session state in local memory is not optimal and why it makes sense to store it in Azure Redis Cache instead. And after that, I'll show you how to implement the Azure Redis Cache Session State Provider in the ASP. NET Forms application.

Testing the Performance Benefits of Caching
Now that we have caching implemented in our application, let's make sure that is was actually useful to do so. In this module, we are going to test the performance of the application with caching implemented and without and then we are going to compare the results to see if caching made sense. Then, we'll go over the most important things to remember, to summarize the course. And I'll share some resources with you that might be useful for you when you want to dive in deeper.