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by sneak
1918 days ago
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Because the backend app servers were extremely fat (memory and disk intensive) and every request they served that could have been served from an upstream cache was a request that they weren't serving that actually required all of their resources to serve. Caching upstream on (vastly cheaper) instances permitted a huge cost savings for the same requests/sec. |
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