Caching Explained - How Apps Stay Fast Under Heavy Load (System Design #5)
Without caching, even the fastest databases would crumble under real-world traffic. It's one of the most powerful performance tools in any engineer's toolkit.
Without caching, even the fastest databases would crumble under real-world traffic. It’s one of the most powerful performance tools in any engineer’s toolkit.
What’s in the video (6m 9s)
- 0:00 — Caching Fundamentals
- 0:34 — What is Latency?
- 1:27 — What is Cache?
- 1:50 — Cache Hit vs Cache Miss
- 2:11 — Application-Level Cache vs CDN
- 2:49 — How an Application-Level Cache Works?
- 3:12 — How a CDN Works?
- 3:36 — What is Cache Invalidation?
- 4:17 — What is Write-Through Cache?
- 4:37 — How Caching Works?
- 4:56 — Advantages of Caching
- 5:21 — Key Takeaways of Caching
Resources
- Full System Design series: YouTube playlist
- Previous episode: https://youtu.be/E2YFjXYkw7Q
- Next episode: https://youtu.be/jFfY9JarT1g
For more in this series, visit the #system-design tag page or jump to the channel uploads list for everything else.
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