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Feb 26, 2024 · Backend Development

Designing a High‑Performance In‑Memory Cache in Go: From Simple Map to Sharded Locking and BigCache

This article explains how to build an efficient in‑memory cache in Go by starting with a basic map, adding read‑write locks for concurrency, reducing lock contention through sharding, minimizing GC overhead with a ring buffer, and finally using the high‑performance BigCache library.

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Designing a High‑Performance In‑Memory Cache in Go: From Simple Map to Sharded Locking and BigCache

Tencent Cloud Developer

Apr 21, 2022 · Backend Development

Local Cache Solutions in Golang: A Comprehensive Guide to Open-Source Components

The guide reviews the essential requirements for Go local caching and compares seven open‑source caches—freecache, bigcache, fastcache, offheap, groupcache, ristretto, and go‑cache—while detailing the sharded, lock‑reduced designs of freecache, bigcache, fastcache, and offheap, and explains how off‑heap allocation or pointer‑free maps achieve near zero‑GC performance.

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Local Cache Solutions in Golang: A Comprehensive Guide to Open-Source Components