2024-09-29
Edge caches and the humility of stale data
By Lan Pham
networkingcdn
Caches feel magical until an incident proves they cached the wrong thing. We rehearse purge drills with explicit customer-visible messaging.
We also show how to pair cache TTL decisions with observability burn rates—not vanity dashboards.
We finish with a workshop invitation: bring your real traffic shape anonymized; we model it together in lab.