Types of Caches
There are five basic types of caching approaches when dealing with content distribution. Each has pros and cons, and more importantly each has its place. Often it is awkward, or simply impossible, to implement a specific caching approach due to the nature of the underlying data.
Layered/Transparent Cache
The transparent (or layered) cache should be well understood by now. This is the technology deployed to solve our image-serving problem in Chapter 6. The caching proxy is placed in front of the architecture and all requests arrive at the proxy. The proxy attempts to service the request by using its private cache. If the response to that request has not yet been cached (or the cache has expired or otherwise been destroyed), the ...
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