🗺️ Roadmap¶

This document outlines the planned evolution of CoreSystem.Cache.

The roadmap is intended to provide visibility into the long-term direction of the project. Features may evolve based on community feedback and real-world adoption.

Guiding Principles¶

The framework will continue to evolve following these principles:

Production-first
Cloud-native
Provider-independent
Extensible architecture
OpenTelemetry-first
Backward compatibility whenever possible

✅ Completed¶

The following capabilities are already available in the current project.

Core Infrastructure¶

[x] Memory cache provider
[x] Provider abstraction
[x] Dependency Injection integration

Cache Pipeline¶

[x] Composable execution pipeline
[x] Logging behavior
[x] Metrics behavior
[x] Resilience behavior
[x] Fallback behavior

Caching Features¶

[x] Cache Aside pattern (GetOrAddAsync)
[x] Tag-based invalidation
[x] Concurrent cache population protection
[x] HTTP response caching

Serialization¶

[x] JSON
[x] MessagePack
[x] Protocol Buffers

Serialization is selected through CacheOptions.SerializerType and delegated to the CoreSystem serialization infrastructure.

Observability¶

[x] OpenTelemetry Metrics
[ ] Health Checks

🚧 Short-Term¶

The next releases will focus on improving flexibility and performance.

Pipeline¶

[x] Configurable pipeline ordering
[x] Conditional behaviors
[ ] Custom behavior registration

Performance¶

[ ] Compression behavior
[ ] Benchmark suite
[ ] Additional performance metrics

Developer Experience¶

[ ] More samples
[ ] Extended documentation
[ ] Analyzer package
[ ] Source Link support

🔮 Long-Term Vision¶

Future versions aim to transform the framework into a complete caching platform.

Multi-Level Cache¶

[ ] L1 Cache
[ ] L2 Cache
[ ] Transparent synchronization

Provider SDK¶

[ ] Public provider SDK
[ ] Storage provider templates
[ ] Community provider support

Advanced Features¶

[ ] Adaptive expiration
[ ] Cache analytics
[ ] Native AOT optimizations
[ ] Source Generator support

💡 Future Pipeline Behaviors¶

The pipeline architecture makes it possible to introduce additional behaviors without modifying existing cache operations.

Possible future behaviors include:

[ ] CompressionBehavior
[ ] EncryptionBehavior
[ ] TracingBehavior
[ ] AuditBehavior
[ ] ValidationBehavior
[ ] RateLimitingBehavior
[ ] CacheWarmupBehavior
[ ] CacheReplicationBehavior

Community Ideas¶

Ideas proposed by the community may be incorporated into future releases.

Suggestions are welcome through:

GitHub Issues
GitHub Discussions
Pull Requests

Release Strategy¶

The project follows Semantic Versioning.

Version	Focus
1.x	Stability, bug fixes, documentation
2.x	Extensibility and advanced pipeline capabilities
3.x	Advanced caching strategies
4.x	Ecosystem integration

Contributing¶

If you'd like to contribute to any roadmap item, feel free to open an issue or submit a Pull Request.

Community contributions are always welcome.