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Cloud Arch Simulator teaches cache placement through interactive puzzles
Cloud Arch Simulator uses directed graphs to model traffic flow, showing how cache placement affects load. Users deploy topologies and watch failures like a Redis cache after an overloaded database doing nothing. The tool aims to teach that a cache only protects traffic reaching it, not a global fix.
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A clever interactive tool that makes a fundamental distributed-systems lesson stick better than any textbook diagram.
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