Java · Senior · System design

Design caching for a high-load Spring Boot application running as several instances. How would you choose between a local and a distributed cache, and how would you handle invalidation?

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They're checking whether the candidate can deliberately choose a cache level for the nature of the data, keep instances consistent during invalidation, and plan for failures: races with the database, cache stampede, Redis going down, heap pressure.

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