[Post Event] Azure Tech Series - 𝐂𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐥𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬, March 26th, 2021

Last week I had the opportunity to deliver a session for developers during the Azure Tech Series, where decided to talk about different ways of caching content inside a serverless application develop on top of Azure Functions.

More information about the session can be found below.

Title: Caching inside serverless applications

Abstract: Application optimization is one of the key things that we need to handle to ensure that we have success and pleased stakeholders. Should we use memory caching, shared resources, or an external cache? Join this session in a journey when we discover how we can interlace Azure Functions and Azure Redis Cache in such a way to optimize our applications with a minimum impact on development effort and technical depth.

Slides:

Caching inside serverless applications from Radu Vunvulea

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