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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 many steps, some slow, and failures must unwind
When a process is a sequence with retries, waits and compensations, the state machine should be explicit rather than smeared across services. Step Functions holds the state, retries a step without replaying the ones before it, and gives you one place to see where any order actually is.
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.
Another service to model and pay per transition — overkill for a two-step process a queue would handle.
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.