Caching can be a great way to improve the performance of data retrieval. For example, under the hood [OrderCloudUserAuth] caches a verified user's context for 5 minutes, removing the performance cost of duplicate verifications.
However, we don't want to dictate what cache technology your app uses. For flexibilty, Catalyst provides an interface ISimpleCache. You can register your own implementation in Startup and the Catalyst library will use it.
public virtual void ConfigureServices(IServiceCollection services) {
services.AddSingleton<ISimpleCache, MyCacheService>()
}We've also provided an implementation for an easy to use C# in-memory cache technology that we like, LazyCache. If you wanted to use something like Redis, create a RedisService.cs that implments ISimpleCache, inject it, and [OrderCloudUserAuth] will use that caching technology instead.
If you don't see a method on the interface you were hoping for, please open an issue.