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AWS 3-tier request flow
Follow a request from the browser through the load balancer, web tier and app tier to the database and back.
FreePattern
Caching, hit and miss
Watch an app check a fast cache before the database, fill it on a miss, and clear it when data changes.
FreeConcept
What a CDN actually does
Follow a request to the nearest edge location, through the regional cache, back to the origin and home again.
Understand the systems behind every app, and explain them with confidence.
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Watch the flow
Follow one request as it travels through every service in the system.
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Step through it
Pause on any hop, switch the explanation level, even break a block to see what fails.
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