Caching Before beginning with this lesson, I want to ask you a question. When you visit a website and request certain data from the server. How long do you wait for the response? 5 seconds, 10 seconds, 15 seconds, 30 seconds? I know, I know, I am pushing it… 45? What? Still no response… And then you finally bounce off & visit another website for your answer. We are impatient creatures; we need our answers quick. This makes caching vital to applications to prevent users from bouncing off to other websites, all the time. What Is Caching? # Caching is key to the performance of any kind of application. It ensures low latency and high throughput . An application with caching will certainly do better than an application without caching, simply because it returns the response in less time as opposed to the application without a cache implemen