Practicing and exploring

Test your knowledge and understanding by answering some questions, getting some hands-on practice, and exploring this chapter’s topics with deeper research.

Exercise 9.1 – Test your knowledge

Answer the following questions:

1. How much longer does it take to read 1 MB of data from SSD compared to memory?
2. What is the difference between absolute and sliding expirations?
3. What unit of measurement is used by Size for the in-memory cache?
4. You have written the following statement to get information about in-memory caching but stats is null. What must you do to fix this issue?

   MemoryCacheStatistics? stats = _memoryCache.GetCurrentStatistics();
   

5. What data types can be stored in (a) an in-memory cache, and (b) a distributed cache?
6. What are the differences between the Retry and Circuit Breaker patterns?
7. When using the RabbitMQ default direct exchange, what must the routing key be for a queue...