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Architecture DecisionsMay 2, 202620 min read

Caching Is Not 'Add Redis' — A Layer-by-Layer Tour from CPU to CDN

A senior-engineer walkthrough of the whole cache stack: CPU L1/L2/L3, TLB, OS page cache, DB buffer pool, in-process LRU (Caffeine), distributed cache (Redis/Memcached), HTTP cache + ETags, CDN edge, browser, DNS, reverse proxies, query plan cache.