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Revisiting Cache Freshness for Emerging Real-Time Applications

Year: 2024

Type: conference-paper

Abstract: Caching is widely used in industry to improve application performance by reducing data-access latency and taking the load off the backend infrastructure. TTLs have become the de-facto mechanism used to keep cached data reasonably fresh (i.e., not too out of date with the backend). However, the emergence of real-time applications requires tighter data freshness, which is impractical to achieve with TTLs. We discuss why this is the case, and propose a simple yet effective adaptive policy to achieve the desired freshness.

Source: ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks (HotNets)

DOI: 10.1145/3696348.3696858

Authors: Ziming Mao, Rishabh Iyer, Scott Shenker, Ion Stoica

Institutions: University of California, Berkeley, International Computer Science Institute

Language: English

Topic: Caching and Content Delivery

Subfield: Computer Networks and Communications

Field: Computer Science

Domain: Physical Sciences

Open Access status: hybrid

OpenAlex ID: W4404240714

FWCI: 1.33

Cites: 20

Cited by: 3

Related to: 10