# Five Caching Strategies Every Backend Dev Should Know

DevFeed: [Five Caching Strategies Every Backend Dev Should Know](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/five-caching-strategies-every-backend-dev-should-know-33337.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://blog.ratnesh-maurya.com/blog/Distributed-Caching-Strategies-Architecture>)

Author: ratneshmaurya2311@gmail.com (Ratnesh Maurya)

Published: 2026-02-24T00:00:00Z

Content type: tutorial

Language: en

Sources: [Ratn Labs](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/ratn-labs.md>)

Topics: [Caching](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/caching.md>), [Back end](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/backend.md>), [Development](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/development.md>)

Tags: [backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/backend.md>), [beginner](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/beginner.md>), [caching](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/caching.md>), [caching-strategies](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/caching-strategies.md>), [guide](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/guide.md>), [system-design](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/system-design.md>), [system-design-backend](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/system-design-backend.md>)

## AI overview

A beginner-friendly guide to five distributed caching strategies: Cache-Aside, Read-Through, Write-Through, Write-Back, and Write-Around, including when to use each.

## Source excerpt

A beginner-friendly guide to Cache-Aside, Read-Through, Write-Through, Write-Back, and Write-Around, with when to use each.