Event: Rootconf Mini 2024

This talk is a repeat of the one I presented at the Systems Meetup a few weeks ago.

Overall, I feel the Systems Meetup presentation went significantly better than the Rootconf one ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Caching is one of the fundamental concepts many of us encounter early in our careers. It gives these amazing wins like optimising performance by 10 thousand fold or even more. But caching as a system is a bi-modal system, where one mode of the system appears so rare that it’s almost very hard to prepare for them.

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