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Caching Strategies for Read-Heavy Applications

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Caching Strategies for Read-Heavy Applications

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Backend Engineering

8 min readOctober 30, 2025

Engineering

The best cache is the one your team can reason about — including TTLs, invalidation, and what happens when it goes cold.

Pick the Right Layer

HTTP caching for public assets
Application caches for hot entities
CDN for static and edge-friendly content

Measure hit rate and p95 latency together; a high hit rate with stale business data is worse than no cache.

TopicsRedisbackendcachingperformance

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