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ASP.NET Core Caching Without Redis — IDistributedCache & HybridCache

The cache interfaces ASP.NET Core already uses — backed by a replicated .NET store, not Redis.

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ASP.NET Core Caching Without Redis — IDistributedCache & HybridCache — screen 1 — ASP.NET Core apps cache through IDistributedCache and HybridCache. Zaris implements both — registration is two lines in Program.cs, then you inject the cache exactly as before.

ASP.NET Core Caching Without Redis — IDistributedCache & HybridCache — screen 2 — The same code that ran on Redis runs on Zaris: Set, Get, Refresh, Remove. HybridCache adds an in-process L1 over the distributed L2, with tag invalidation and stampede protection.

ASP.NET Core Caching Without Redis — IDistributedCache & HybridCache — screen 3 — And the distributed tier is a real cluster: partitioned, replicated at RF2, highly available — the cache entries land across nodes.

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