[Firehed]

> And to the caching point -- having data cached locally in memory is great, but you can't trust that.

You can if you design around handling a possibly-stale cache.

[encoderer]

Not really. There is no system that ever has had an always-fresh cache.

Are you disputing the premise or just disagreeing for the sake of it?

[Firehed]

I'm saying that having a stale cache won't be a problem for an application that is designed around the fact that you will occasionally have stale data.