Summary

In this chapter, we investigated the various tools and methods used for caching and message queuing. These two techniques offer different ways of improving the performance of your system by moving data to other locations and not having one massive monolith do everything.

These are both advanced topics and difficult to cover in such a small space. Hopefully, you have been introduced to some fresh ideas that can help you with solving problems in different ways. You can also visit the author's website at https://unop.uk/ for the coverage of more topics. If you have discovered a new technology that you think will assist, you're encouraged to read the documentation and specifications for all of the implementation details.

However, before you dive in, you should understand that advanced techniques are complex and have downsides, which can reduce your development speed. In the next chapter, we'll learn about these downsides and discover approaches for managing complexities, such as microservices...