caching

Understand where caches live, how cache-aside, read-through, write-through, and write-back differ, how to choose eviction policies, and how to prevent cache stampedes — with hit ratio math and a concrete cache-aside code snippet.

Why your assets should never come from your origin. How a CDN's edge cache, geographic routing, and invalidation actually work, plus the cases where a CDN doesn't help (or quietly hurts).

The named caching patterns (cache-aside, read-through, write-through, write-behind), when each makes sense, and the failure modes that bite even experienced teams (thundering herd, stale invalidation, the second-hardest problem).

How to cut LLM bills 50-90% without sacrificing freshness. Covers the three caching layers (response, prefix, semantic), what each costs to build, and the cases where caching subtly breaks correctness.

Explore Redis, a powerful open-source in-memory data store. Learn its core concepts, why it's used, its versatile data structures, and how it delivers blazing-fast performance for caching, real-time analytics, and more.