Ultimate ASP.NET 5 Web API Development Guide - Implementing Caching

The video tutorial explains response caching, focusing on its implementation in .NET Core. It discusses the pros and cons of software-level caching versus network-level caching, highlighting the impact on server load and memory usage. The tutorial provides a step-by-step guide to configuring response caching in the program.cs file, including setting cache control headers. It concludes with a demonstration using Postman to test caching, showing how cached responses improve API performance by reducing database load.

What is response caching and how does it function in an API context?

Discuss the pros and cons of using response caching at the software level versus hardware level.

Explain how response caching can alleviate the load on a database when multiple clients request the same data.

What configurations are necessary to set up response caching in a .NET Core application?

How does the 'cache control' header function in the context of response caching?

What is the significance of the 'vary' header in response caching?

How can you test the effectiveness of response caching in an API?