Mid REST API

What are the trade-offs of different caching strategies in REST APIs?

  • Client-side caching → Reduces server calls, but may serve stale data.
  • Server-side caching → Faster responses, but increases memory usage.
  • Proxy caching/CDN → Global scalability, but harder cache invalidation.
  • Database caching (Redis) → Faster queries, but adds complexity and consistency

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