Understanding the caching mechanism

Laravel provides the developer with a strong mechanism for caching.

The caching mechanism can be used with a provider chosen from the database, Memcached, Redis, or DynamoDB.

Laravel’s caching mechanism allows data to be stored for later retrieval quickly and efficiently.

This is very useful in cases where retrieving data from an external service with a database or web service can be a time-consuming operation. After information retrieval, storing the retrieved information in a cache mechanism is possible to make future information retrieval easier and faster.

So basically, a caching mechanism exposes two basic functionalities: caching of information and retrieval from the cache of information.

To properly retrieve information each time a cached item is used, it is appropriate to use a storage key. This way, it is possible to cache a lot of information identified by a specific key.

Laravel’s caching mechanism, through...