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How would you design a resilient caching strategy across multiple layers?

Updated May 6, 2026

Short answer

Multi-layer caching uses L1 (in-memory), L2 (distributed), and DB fallback with consistency control.

Deep explanation

L1 cache (Caffeine) is fast but local. L2 cache (Redis) is shared. DB acts as source of truth. Cache invalidation strategies include TTL, write-through, and event-based invalidation using Kafka.

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