# Reduced Load

> The ability to lessen work reaching a backend by serving repeat results from a cache.

Record: `lexicon:reduced-load`
Kind: capability
Layer: [Performance Core](https://banes-lab.com/records/layer/performance-core.md)
Canonical: https://banes-lab.com/ontology/lexicon#lexicon-reduced-load

Listed in [Lexicon terms](https://banes-lab.com/api/records/lexicon.md), after [Read Traffic Offload](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/read-traffic-offload.md) and before [Regression Detection](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon/regression-detection.md).

## Category

- [Scalability / Performance / Optimization](https://banes-lab.com/records/lexicon-category/scalability-performance-optimization.md)

## Enabled by

- [Caching](https://banes-lab.com/records/architecture/caching.md)

## Linked from

- [Scalability / Performance / Optimization](https://banes-lab.com/ontology/principles/architecture-category-scalability-performance-optimization.md)