Cache Service Guide

The Cache Service is a platform-based Org environment-level feature that provides caching capabilities at the data plane layer for dynamically referenced accounts, as well as pipelines and expression libraries referenced in pipelines. Since pipeline validations and executions can be slow due to information that needs to be fetched for pipeline prepare, the Cache Service optimizes the fetch mechanism by decreasing the dependency on the control plane for such operations.

Benefits

  • Avoid bottlenecks during asset loading at execution time.
  • Reduce time for pipeline initialization.
  • Improved performance when resolving the noted asset types during pipeline execution.

Support matrix

Asset Support Notes
Groundplexes Tick Icon None
Cloudplexes Tick Icon None
Pipelines Tick Icon Child and error pipelines must be referenced dynamically (Expression Language enabled)
Accounts Tick Icon Must be referenced dynamically (Expression Language enabled)
Expression libraries Tick Icon Must be referenced dynamically (Expression Language enabled)
Tasks Cross Icon Support is planned in a future release

Feature Enablement

The Cache Service feature requires setting an Environment-level feature flag.

com.snaplogic.cc.cache.CacheClientProvider.CACHE_SERVICE_ENABLED

  • To enable, set the feature flag to true.
  • To disable, set the feature flag to false.

We recommend that you enable this feature flag in your development environments before production environments. Consult your CSM about enabling the feature for your environment (Org).

Usage guidelines

We recommend that you dynamically reference assets to get the full benefit of the Cache Service.

Behavior Change

When the Cache Service is enabled, references to assets must be precisely specified for the asset to be cached.

Pipeline reference example 1

S3 Download Snap -> Snap account path: /snaplogic/project_space/project/s3_account

Manager --> Existing Snap account paths

  • /snaplogic/project_space/shared/s3_account
  • /snaplogic/shared/s3_account

Because the path /snaplogic/project_space/project/s3_account cannot be found, the account is not cached.

Pipeline reference example 2

  • Pipeline A: S3 Download Snap --> static account reference is not cached.
  • Pipeline B: Pipeline Execute Snap --> dynamically referenced account is cached.
  • Pipeline C: S3 Download --> static account reference is cached.