Lab article · ~14 min read

Distributed Caching: Redis Cluster & Sentinel

Cache patterns (cache-aside, write-through, write-behind), Redis topology (Cluster vs Sentinel), invalidation strategies, the cache stampede that has felled more banking platforms than any disk failure, and operational patterns for sub-millisecond latency.

Redis 7 Lettuce Cache-Aside Stampede Protection Sentinel
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Lab article · ~14 min read

Distributed Caching: Hazelcast IMDG for In-Process State

Embedded grid topology, partition awareness, near-cache configuration, and the stateful financial workloads where collapsing the network hop between your JVM and its data beats a shared Redis cluster — plus the real costs of embedding state inside application pods.

Hazelcast 5.4 EntryProcessor Near-cache CP Subsystem Kubernetes
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Cache invalidation via CDC

Driving cache invalidation from a Debezium stream of database changes — the only pattern that survives DBA-level changes the application doesn’t know about.