Infinispan can play a vital role in maximizing performance; however, while the nature of caching depends on your applications' requirements, you can employ common caching strategies to avoid running the risk of reducing performance by choosing an inappropriate pattern. In the rest of this chapter, we will cover some caching access patterns and their advantages and disadvantages. Each of these patterns is independent from the others. You can mix and match them to build as comprehensive a data grid solution as your applications require.