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hi, technical question, are there any plans to implement a cache mechanism in glue?

UK7TM6CQJ
UK7TM6CQJ Posts: 123 🧑🏻‍🚀 - Cadet
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hi, technical question, are there any plans to implement a cache mechanism in glue?

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  • Unknown
    Unknown

    i would guess no, where would you suggest to add caches?

  • UK7TM6CQJ
    UK7TM6CQJ Posts: 123 🧑🏻‍🚀 - Cadet

    was thinking...everywhere

  • UK7TM6CQJ
    UK7TM6CQJ Posts: 123 🧑🏻‍🚀 - Cadet

    like a global/general thing

  • UK5DS29L2
    UK5DS29L2 Posts: 546 🧑🏻‍🚀 - Cadet
    edited September 2019

    I don't think you would really want to cache API responses

  • UK7TM6CQJ
    UK7TM6CQJ Posts: 123 🧑🏻‍🚀 - Cadet

    but we do, because catalog-search takes 6 seconds

  • UK5DS29L2
    UK5DS29L2 Posts: 546 🧑🏻‍🚀 - Cadet

    🤔 wasn't that Elasticsearch-based search? that was glue?

  • UK5DS29L2
    UK5DS29L2 Posts: 546 🧑🏻‍🚀 - Cadet

    ah, you're right, there's glue endpoint for that. but I wouldn't cache that.

  • UK5DS29L2
    UK5DS29L2 Posts: 546 🧑🏻‍🚀 - Cadet

    the point of the API is to serve you the current state

  • UK5DS29L2
    UK5DS29L2 Posts: 546 🧑🏻‍🚀 - Cadet

    a lot of events would have to be added around glue and update events to cache the response in a stable way. more work than it's worth to be honest. varnish would work here if you still want to cache it anyway

  • UK7TM6CQJ
    UK7TM6CQJ Posts: 123 🧑🏻‍🚀 - Cadet
    edited September 2019

    well, we just have ~45k products, and 5-6 seconds fetching the first page in catalog search is not acceptable...by far. we'll profile soon to check exactly what's causing it

  • Unknown
    Unknown

    i agree

  • Unknown
    Unknown

    but that sounds like a lot of other things that might be addressed first

  • Unknown
    Unknown

    because 45k is by no means a lot

  • Unknown
    Unknown
    edited September 2019

    what are your cluster’s specs? how is it configured?

  • Unknown
    Unknown

    more nodes? different nodes? cpu? memory? more shards?

  • Unknown
    Unknown

    is the time really lost during the roundtrip to elasticsearch?

  • Unknown
    Unknown

    just by the numbers i see, a fairly modest setup should provide 2 digit ms response times

  • Unknown
    Unknown

    maybe + latency

  • UK7TM6CQJ
    UK7TM6CQJ Posts: 123 🧑🏻‍🚀 - Cadet

    surely we'll profile

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