Rate-limited action caching for branches API [RUN ALL RSPEC] [RUN AS-IF-FOSS]
What does this MR do?
Adds action-caching to the Grape API, allowing us to fully cache the response of an action.
This adds the action cache to the branches list API, which introduces a 30 second cache/delay to identical requests on the endpoint. This means that identical requests from the same user will return identical data for up to 30 seconds, drastically lowering pressure on Gitaly when under load. It does mean that new branches, for example, will take up to 30 seconds to appear on the API.
Related #330128 (closed)
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Edited by Robert May