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As SRE who dealt with more caching errors then I care to. Alot of caching comes down to YAGNI.

To his point: It's very hard to beat decades of RDBMS research and improvements

Your RDBMS internal caching will likely get you extremely far and speed difference of Redis vs RDBMS call is very unlikely to matter in your standard CRUD App.



> Redis vs RDBMS call is very unlikely to matter in your standard CRUD App

To any juniors reading: cache the response payload (or parts of it), not the results of database queries.




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