Caching is one of the most popular ways to optimize the performance of web applications. Magento is not far from this trend and the primary approach to speed up slow code from the core team is to cache it. This approach works well for small projects where the rate of inventory changes is shallow. But as soon as you enter sales season or receive regular product updates from the external system, your cache hit ratio plummets. In this talk, you will learn how to ensure that your system’s uncached response times are as light as possible when you get a cache miss by minimizing the I/O of your application with intelligent batch data preloading.