Cache

Policies in the Cache category helps in storing data to cache in the proxy pipeline, to access the written data and to remove the entries from cache. Response cache helps in performance based by caching the response from target server and avoiding back end invocation when possible.

Figure 1: Policies under Cache category

The different policies under this category are:

• Populate Cache
• Response Cache
• Lookup Cache
• Invalidate Cache

The above Cache policies can be used to improve performance of APIs as it allows API proxy to store and retrieve data at runtime.