MichaCo/CacheManager

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CacheManager is an open-source caching abstraction layer for .NET written in C#, supporting multiple cache providers such as Redis, Memcached, and in-memory caches. It enables multi-layer caching setups with advanced features like cache synchronization, concurrent update handling, serialization, events, and logging.

Use cases

• add distributed caching to a .NET application
• combine in-process and Redis caching in layers
• swap cache providers without rewriting code
• handle concurrent cache updates in distributed systems
• keep multiple app instances' caches in sync with a backplane
• configure caching via JSON or app.config in ASP.NET Core

When to choose

• you are on .NET/.NET Core and need a unified API over multiple cache providers
• you need multi-layer caching (L1 in-memory in front of L2 distributed cache)
• you need safe concurrent update semantics or cache synchronization across instances

When to avoid

• you only need a single simple in-memory cache and prefer Microsoft's built-in IMemoryCache
• you rely on Memcached, Couchbase, or performance counters, which are no longer supported in v2+
• you are not on the .NET platform

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caching serialization logging concurrency backend web-development developer-tools microservices dotnet cross-platform cloud cache-abstraction redis memcached multi-layer-cache cache-backplane nuget distributed-cache

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