This week I was working on the integration with the Optimizely Feature Toggles.
Its PHP SDK is mediocre.
It makes the HTTP request for the data file whenever the new PHP process is executed.
The data file is in our case larger than 2 MB, so it has to download a large file, but also validate it and parse it.
That makes around 700 ms overhead on each process.
Therefore I needed a cache mechanism.
But, as we try to write the software in a framework-agnostic way, I wanted to use the industry standard interface – the PSR-16 Simple Cache, to not be coupled to a specific cache implementation.
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