July 2015
Beginner to intermediate
162 pages
3h 31m
English
By insulating the database from the read load, a problem is introduced in the form of a cache consistency issue. How does the local data cache deal with data changing underneath it within the primary database? The answer is rather disappointing—it can't! The manifestation of issues will largely depend on the data needs of the application and how frequently the data changes, but typically, caching systems will operate in one of the following two modes to combat the problem:
Time-bound caches almost always have consistency issues, but ...
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