Caching Strategy for AEM as a Headless CMS

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Caching Strategy for AEM as a Headless CMS by Chitra Madan

Overview

When using Adobe Experience Manager (AEM) as a Headless CMS, ensuring an efficient caching strategy is critical for delivering high performance and scalability. A robust caching mechanism helps reduce latency, offload server requests, and ensure that the end-user experience is seamless. This blog explores key caching strategies tailored for AEM in a headless architecture.

https://medium.com/@madanchitra13/caching-strategy-for-aem-as-a-headless-cms-317e7f389875

Thanks,

Chitra

Q&A

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Great article, @ChitraMadan ! In large-scale implementations, do you recommend using a layered caching approach (like combining CDN with AEM’s native caching) to optimize performance, or would a simpler approach suffice?

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Hi @AmitVishwakarma ,

Yes, I would highly recommend layered caching approach, having CDN caching on top of AEM native's caching will definitely help. Consider a scenario, where for some reason your dispatcher goes down or is not able to scale,  having caching in CDN in these scenarios, will help mitigate the impact on your website. As a standard practice, we are anyways using CDN on top of Dispatcher, so why not even use it for caching, if it helps, without adding cost.

Thanks,

Chitra

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@ChitraMadan Really helpful post! Very insightful on caching for headless AEM. In your experience, do you usually rely more on dispatcher caching, CDN-level caching, or a combination when serving high-traffic APIs?