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Local cache vs distributed cache — real production use cases
Tests whether you pick local cache for read-heavy, loosely-consistent data (accepting per-node staleness) and distributed cache only when consistency across nodes or shared capacity actually matters, rather than defaulting to Redis for everything.
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