As of now, Azure Cache cannot be run locally without the devfabric emulator. Although the devfabric emulator adds to load time it helps evaluate the caching service in a manner that is uniform to the cloud and helps avoid surprises. The caching service uses a number of Azure environment features for parity on cloud and on-prem for testing.
If you are hitting issues with respect to Azure cache on devfabric times, could you tell me the extra load time added ? Use the dev config store for a faster load time, once your app loads up it shouldnt take up much extra time.Also considering removing logging etc.