Distributed caching in a multi-tenant point-of-sale (pos) system

A method comprising:

• managing, within a processing environment of a multi-tenant point-of-sale (POS) system, a context-based distributed cache for a containerized workload comprising a plurality of microservices;
• synchronizing transaction data associated with the context-based distributed cache with a master data store and a slave data store;
• and
• maintaining memory of a preconfigured size for the context-based distributed cache within the processing environment.

A system comprising:

• at least one processor and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having stored instructions which, when executed by the at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to:
• maintain a context-based distributed cache for a containerized workload of a multi-tenant point-of-sale (POS) system managed on a tenant hosting device of a processing environment associated with the multi-tenant POS system;
• maintain transaction data within the context-based distributed cache without a data schema associated with the transaction data;
• and
• dynamically scale resources associated with the containerized workload and the context-based distributed cache based on performance metrics associated with the processing environment.