---
id: "ADR-006-caching"
title: "Estrategia de Caching"
type: "Documentation"
project: "trading-platform"
version: "1.0.0"
updated_date: "2026-01-04"
---

# ADR-005: Estrategia de Caching

**Estado:** Aceptado
**Fecha:** 2025-12-06
**Decisores:** Tech Lead, Arquitecto
**Relacionado:** ADR-001

---

## Contexto

Trading Platform necesita optimizar performance en varios aspectos:

1. **Predicciones ML**: Modelos tardan 200-500ms, usuarios esperan < 100ms
2. **Market Data**: APIs de trading limitan a 100 requests/min
3. **Sesiones de Usuario**: JWT validation en cada request es costosa
4. **Rate Limiting**: Prevenir abuse de API (DDoS, brute force)
5. **Leaderboards**: Queries complejas que agregan datos de muchos usuarios
6. **Historical Data**: Datos históricos raramente cambian

Requisitos de Performance:
- API responses < 200ms (p95)
- ML predictions < 100ms (cached)
- Soporte para 10K usuarios concurrentes (post-MVP)

---

## Decisión

### Cache Layer: Redis 7.x

**Redis** como cache principal por:
- In-memory: latencia < 1ms
- Pub/Sub: Para invalidación de cache distribuida
- Data structures: Lists, Sets, Sorted Sets para leaderboards
- TTL nativo: Expiración automática
- Persistence opcional: RDB snapshots para disaster recovery

### Cache Strategy por Tipo de Dato

| Data Type | Strategy | TTL | Invalidation |
|-----------|----------|-----|--------------|
| **Sessions** | Write-through | 7 days | Logout, password change |
| **ML Predictions** | Cache-aside | 5 min | Model retrain |
| **Market Data** | Cache-aside | 1 min | Webhook from broker API |
| **User Profile** | Write-through | 1 hour | Profile update |
| **Leaderboards** | Cache-aside | 10 min | Cron job rebuild |
| **Historical OHLCV** | Cache-aside | 24 hours | Never (immutable) |
| **Rate Limit** | Counter | 1 min | Auto-expire |

### TTL Configuration

```typescript
// apps/backend/src/config/cache.ts
export const CACHE_TTL = {
  SESSION: 60 * 60 * 24 * 7,        // 7 days
  ML_PREDICTION: 60 * 5,             // 5 minutes
  MARKET_DATA: 60,                   // 1 minute
  USER_PROFILE: 60 * 60,             // 1 hour
  LEADERBOARD: 60 * 10,              // 10 minutes
  OHLCV_HISTORICAL: 60 * 60 * 24,    // 24 hours
  RATE_LIMIT: 60,                    // 1 minute
} as const;
```

### Redis Key Naming Convention

```
{app}:{entity}:{id}:{version}

Examples:
- session:user:123abc:v1
- ml:prediction:AAPL:1d:v2
- market:ohlcv:TSLA:2025-12-06:v1
- user:profile:456def:v1
- leaderboard:monthly:2025-12:v1
- ratelimit:api:192.168.1.1:v1
```

### Cache-Aside Pattern (Read-Heavy)

```typescript
// apps/backend/src/services/market.service.ts
async function getOHLCV(symbol: string, date: string) {
  const cacheKey = `market:ohlcv:${symbol}:${date}:v1`;

  // 1. Try cache first
  const cached = await redis.get(cacheKey);
  if (cached) {
    return JSON.parse(cached);
  }

  // 2. Cache miss → fetch from DB
  const data = await db.ohlcv.findUnique({
    where: { symbol, date }
  });

  // 3. Store in cache
  await redis.setex(
    cacheKey,
    CACHE_TTL.OHLCV_HISTORICAL,
    JSON.stringify(data)
  );

  return data;
}
```

### Write-Through Pattern (Write-Heavy)

```typescript
// apps/backend/src/services/user.service.ts
async function updateProfile(userId: string, data: ProfileUpdate) {
  const cacheKey = `user:profile:${userId}:v1`;

  // 1. Write to DB first
  const updated = await db.user.update({
    where: { id: userId },
    data
  });

  // 2. Update cache
  await redis.setex(
    cacheKey,
    CACHE_TTL.USER_PROFILE,
    JSON.stringify(updated)
  );

  return updated;
}
```

### Rate Limiting

```typescript
// apps/backend/src/middleware/rateLimit.ts
async function rateLimit(req: Request, res: Response, next: NextFunction) {
  const ip = req.ip;
  const key = `ratelimit:api:${ip}:v1`;

  const current = await redis.incr(key);

  if (current === 1) {
    await redis.expire(key, CACHE_TTL.RATE_LIMIT);
  }

  if (current > 100) { // 100 requests per minute
    return res.status(429).json({
      error: 'Too many requests, try again later'
    });
  }

  next();
}
```

### ML Predictions Cache

```python
# apps/ml-engine/cache.py
import redis
import json
from datetime import timedelta

redis_client = redis.Redis(host='localhost', port=6379)

async def get_prediction(symbol: str, timeframe: str):
    cache_key = f"ml:prediction:{symbol}:{timeframe}:v2"

    # Try cache
    cached = redis_client.get(cache_key)
    if cached:
        return json.loads(cached)

    # Generate prediction (expensive)
    prediction = await model.predict(symbol, timeframe)

    # Cache for 5 minutes
    redis_client.setex(
        cache_key,
        timedelta(minutes=5),
        json.dumps(prediction)
    )

    return prediction
```

### Cache Invalidation

```typescript
// apps/backend/src/services/cache.service.ts
class CacheInvalidator {
  // Invalidate single key
  async invalidate(key: string) {
    await redis.del(key);
  }

  // Invalidate pattern (use with caution)
  async invalidatePattern(pattern: string) {
    const keys = await redis.keys(pattern);
    if (keys.length > 0) {
      await redis.del(...keys);
    }
  }

  // Invalidate on model retrain
  async invalidateMLPredictions() {
    await this.invalidatePattern('ml:prediction:*');
  }

  // Invalidate user session
  async invalidateSession(userId: string) {
    await this.invalidatePattern(`session:user:${userId}:*`);
  }
}
```

---

## Consecuencias

### Positivas

1. **Performance**: API responses < 100ms (cached), vs 500ms (uncached)
2. **Cost Savings**: 90% menos requests a APIs externas de market data
3. **Scalability**: Redis soporta 100K ops/sec en hardware modesto
4. **Rate Limiting**: Previene abuse sin afectar usuarios legítimos
5. **ML Efficiency**: Predicciones cached reducen load en GPU
6. **Developer Experience**: Redis CLI para debugging de cache
7. **Session Management**: Logout instantáneo vía invalidación

### Negativas

1. **Stale Data**: Cache puede servir datos desactualizados por max TTL
2. **Memory Cost**: Redis requiere ~2GB RAM para 10K usuarios activos
3. **Complexity**: Cache invalidation es "one of the two hard problems"
4. **Cold Start**: Primeros requests son lentos (cache warming needed)
5. **Thundering Herd**: Múltiples requests simultáneos al expirar cache
6. **Redis SPOF**: Si Redis cae, performance degrada (no falla, pero lento)

### Riesgos y Mitigaciones

| Riesgo | Mitigación |
|--------|-----------|
| Cache invalidation bugs | Unit tests + integration tests de cache |
| Thundering herd | Implement cache locking (SETNX pattern) |
| Redis down | Graceful degradation: app funciona sin cache |
| Memory exhausted | Eviction policy: `allkeys-lru` |
| Stale ML predictions | Short TTL (5 min) + manual invalidation |

---

## Alternativas Consideradas

### 1. Memcached
- **Pros**: Simple, muy rápido, menos memoria que Redis
- **Contras**: No persistence, no data structures, no pub/sub
- **Decisión**: ❌ Descartada - Redis ofrece más features por mismo costo

### 2. Application-Level Cache (Node.js Map)
- **Pros**: Cero latencia, no external dependency
- **Contras**: No distribuido, se pierde al reiniciar app
- **Decisión**: ❌ Descartada - No escala a múltiples instancias

### 3. CDN Caching (Cloudflare/CloudFront)
- **Pros**: Global distribution, DDoS protection
- **Contras**: Solo para static assets, no funciona para API
- **Decisión**: ⚠️ Complementario - Usar para frontend, no para API

### 4. Database Query Cache (PostgreSQL)
- **Pros**: Ya incluido en Postgres
- **Contras**: Limitado, no configurable por query
- **Decisión**: ❌ Insuficiente - Necesitamos cache más agresivo

### 5. GraphQL + DataLoader
- **Pros**: Batching automático, cache per-request
- **Contras**: Requiere migrar de REST a GraphQL
- **Decisión**: ❌ Descartada - REST es suficiente para MVP

### 6. No Cache (Optimizar DB Queries)
- **Pros**: Menos complejidad, no stale data
- **Contras**: Imposible alcanzar < 200ms para ML predictions
- **Decisión**: ❌ Descartada - Performance requirements no alcanzables

---

## Cache Warming Strategy

```typescript
// apps/backend/src/jobs/cache-warmer.ts
import cron from 'node-cron';

// Run every 5 minutes
cron.schedule('*/5 * * * *', async () => {
  const topSymbols = ['AAPL', 'TSLA', 'GOOGL', 'MSFT', 'AMZN'];

  for (const symbol of topSymbols) {
    // Pre-cache ML predictions for popular symbols
    await mlService.getPrediction(symbol, '1d');
    await mlService.getPrediction(symbol, '1w');

    // Pre-cache market data
    await marketService.getOHLCV(symbol, today());
  }

  // Pre-cache leaderboards
  await leaderboardService.getMonthly();
});
```

---

## Monitoring

### Redis Metrics to Track
```
- Hit/Miss Ratio (target > 80%)
- Evicted Keys (should be 0)
- Memory Usage (alert at > 80%)
- Connected Clients
- Commands/sec
```

### Logging
```typescript
// Log cache hits/misses
logger.info('cache_hit', { key, ttl: remaining });
logger.warn('cache_miss', { key, reason: 'expired' });
```

---

## Referencias

- [Redis Documentation](https://redis.io/docs/)
- [Cache Strategies](https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonElastiCache/latest/red-ug/Strategies.html)
- [Cache Invalidation Patterns](https://martinfowler.com/bliki/TwoHardThings.html)
- [Redis Best Practices](https://redis.io/docs/manual/patterns/)