Understanding distributed caching

So, do you think distributed caching is just a fancy term for storing stuff in memory across a few servers? Bless your heart. If only life were that simple. Let me guess, you’re the type who thinks that simply slapping “distributed” in front of anything makes it automatically better, faster, and cooler. Well, strap in because we’re about to dive into the rabbit hole of distributed caching, where nothing is as straightforward as it seems.

Imagine you’re at a software developer’s party (because we all know how wild those get), and someone casually mentions, “Hey, why don’t we just cache everything?” This is like saying, “Why don’t we just solve world hunger by ordering more pizza?” Sure, the idea is nice, but the devil is in the details. Distributed caching is not about stuffing more data into memory. It’s about smartly managing data spread across multiple nodes...