Summary
Load balancer has features (caching and compression) that enable web application acceleration (WAA).
Reference
Scenarios
Scenario 1
Scenario 1: Improve application performance and decreases server load.
Action: Leverage WAA caching
Scenario 2
Scenario 2: Decrease network load and further reduce latency
Action: Utilize WAA compression
Web Application Acceleration
- Works with Layer 7 http/https protocols only
- Only HEAD and GET requests are cached
- Only responses that return HTTP status code 200 are cached
- Cached content might not stay current on the back-end servers until the cache expires or is purged.
- Content is cached until it expires or is purged even if the file is removed from the back-end server
- The maximum size of the cache is 100 MB
- Responses that return the Set-Cookie header are not cached
- Oracle recommends you do not cache dynamic pages because they can leak information
