Agressively cache a large ecommerce page with external database (e.g. redis)
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Britannia Petite posted this in #help-forum
Britannia PetiteOP
- We have more than 1M pages
- We tried using ISR but it doesnt persist over builds (we build multiple times daily) and the first request is still too slow. We barely change our product data so the cache could really have a long ttl.
- The Product pages are simply a bit too slow, many API requests etc.. But the data barely changes.
=> we want to fully cache these pages in a different database, ideally some key value lookup like redis or something.
Has anyone done this before?
In my perfect world we would do this:
1. Request hits product/[handle]
2. Check if key[handle] has a the cached page in remote redis. If yes return.
3. Else, make fetches, return page and safe to cache
Doesnt sound super complicated but before we implement this I was wondering if this is the best approach? Thanks for any pointers! ✌️
- We tried using ISR but it doesnt persist over builds (we build multiple times daily) and the first request is still too slow. We barely change our product data so the cache could really have a long ttl.
- The Product pages are simply a bit too slow, many API requests etc.. But the data barely changes.
=> we want to fully cache these pages in a different database, ideally some key value lookup like redis or something.
Has anyone done this before?
In my perfect world we would do this:
1. Request hits product/[handle]
2. Check if key[handle] has a the cached page in remote redis. If yes return.
3. Else, make fetches, return page and safe to cache
Doesnt sound super complicated but before we implement this I was wondering if this is the best approach? Thanks for any pointers! ✌️
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yea this sounds like a good approach. Use a redis cache handler and you can create this. [here's official example](https://github.com/vercel/next.js/tree/canary/examples/cache-handler-redis)
Britannia PetiteOP
Thanks that looks fantastic! We host on Vercel though and this package seems to be recommended for self-hosting. Does it make sense to use this when hosting on vercel?
I think vercel KV is discontinued or something.
You can use Upstash only
You can use Upstash only
I'm not sure, but you can see if you can use Vercel Edge config
Britannia PetiteOP
I dont want to be locked into vercel too much... But thanks a lot! Will just host a small redis instance on DO or something