Apa iku caching lan kepriye cara panggunaane ing system design?

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**Caching** nyimpen data sing asring diakses ing lapisan cepet (asring ing memori) supaya bisa dijupuk kanthi cepet tanpa ngitung maneh utawa mudhun maneh saka sumber sing luwih alon. Iki minangka salah satuwise teknik sing paling penting kanggo nambahi performance lan scalability.

## Apa sing ditindakake caching

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CACHING stores copies of data in a FAST location for quick repeated access:
  → instead of recomputing or re-fetching from a slow source (database, API, computation),
    serve from the fast cache
  → DRAMATICALLY faster (cache hit) + REDUCES load on the slow backend
→ trades some staleness/complexity for big performance and scalability gains.
```

## Dene caching digunakake (lapisan)

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BROWSER / CLIENT cache → cache on the user's device
CDN → cache static content at edge locations near users
APPLICATION cache (e.g. Redis/Memcached) → cache DB query results, computed data, sessions
DATABASE cache → query/result caching
→ caching can happen at MULTIPLE layers (defense in depth for performance)
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## Keuntungan lan tantangan caching

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✓ PERFORMANCE → much faster responses (memory vs disk/network/computation)
✓ SCALABILITY → reduces load on databases/backends → they handle more
✓ Reduces cost and latency
⚠️ CACHE INVALIDATION → keeping cached data fresh (when source changes) is the hard part:
  → TTL (expire after time) + invalidation (update/remove on change)
  → stale data is the main risk → balance freshness vs performance
⚠️ Adds complexity; cache misses; what/when to cache
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## Mengapa iku penting

Mangerti caching iku dhasar sebab iku **salah satuwise teknik sing paling penting lan akeh digunakake ing system design** kanggo nambahi performance lan scalability, dadi iku katrangan ilmu sing perlu.

Caching — nyimpen data sing asring diakses ing lapisan cepet supaya bisa dijupuk kanthi cepet tinimbang ngitung maneh utawa mudhun maneh saka sumber sing luwih alon — menehi manfaat sing apik: respon sing luwih cepet (dilayani saka memori cepet tinimbang database, jaringan, utawa komputasi sing alon) lan **ngurangi beban ing backend** (dadi database lan layanan bisa nangani luwih akeh, nambahi scalability).

Manfaat dobel iki yaiku performance lan scalability nggawe caching ana ing mana-mana ing system design.

Mangerti yen caching ditindakake ing **pirang-pirang lapisan** — browser/klien, CDN (edge caching saka konten statis), application cache (Redis/Memcached kanggo asil query lan data sing ditung), lan database cache — iku penting kanggo ngerti dene caching iku ana.

Mangerti **keuntungan lan tantangan** iku krusial: keuntungane (performance, scalability, ngurangi biaya lan latency) nyebabake pamakaianne, nanging **tantangan cache invalidation** — nggawe data cached tetep anyar nalika sumber owah, masalah sing misteri iki ditindakake ing TTLs lan invalidation eksplisit, kanthi data sing wis lawas dadi risiko utama — iku perlu dimangerti, sebab caching nukar sawetara kapertapaan lan karumitkitan kanggo paduane.

Mangerti keseimbangan (kesegaran vs performance) lan yen caching nambah karumitkitan ngetrapake ngerti sing sudah.

Sebab caching iku salah satuwise teknik system-design sing paling duwe pengaruh lan akeh digunakake (nambahi performance lan scalability) lan mangerti apa sing ditindakake, dene iku ana (lapisan), lan keuntungan lan tantangane (mligine invalidation) iku dhasar, mangerti caching iku katrangan ilmu system-design sing perlu lan dhasar — teknik utama sing ana ing kasadonan sistem sing bisa diukur, pusat saka performance lan scalability, lan penting kanggo dimangerti kalebu tantangan utamane invalidation, konsep sing bali-bali ing saindhenging system design.