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While this loads — worth knowing
ElastiCache RedisnotElastiCache Memcached
Redis has data structures — sorted sets, counters, pub/sub. Memcached has plain keys and nothing else.
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While this loads — worth knowing
Redis has data structures — sorted sets, counters, pub/sub. Memcached has plain keys and nothing else.
Architecture pattern
when reads vastly outnumber writes and the database feels it
The application asks the cache first and falls back to the database on a miss, writing the answer back as it goes. Most reads never reach the database, which is what lets a modest instance serve a large audience.
In the order a request or a record moves through it. Each one links to the page that explains it.
Phrases that, when you meet them in a scenario, mean this shape rather than another. They are the tell, and they are what an exam question is built around.
Two copies of the truth. Every write needs a story for how the cache stops being wrong.
Every shape has one. A design decision with no stated downside is usually a decision nobody has finished making.
These run through some of the same services, which is exactly why a brief that fits one can look like it fits another.
Reading a shape and producing one from a scenario that never names a service are different skills, and the exam asks for the second. The scenarios give you the brief; you draw the architecture and it is scored against what the brief requires.