Lexicon

Cache Contract

Kind: technique

Layer: Performance Core

Record: lexicon:cache-contract

Canonical: Lexicon

A technique for declaring what a cache entry is keyed by, how long it lives and what invalidates it.

Listed in Lexicon terms, after Warm-Up Latency and before Context-Keyed Cache.

Category

  • Scalability / Performance / Optimization

Refactors

  • Cache Poisoning by Design

Linked from

  • Anti-patterns