GraphQL - What's the Benefit of a Memory Cache?

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Caching a big component of that Federation. So we actually have quite a lot of caching that we do and we're able to mitigate system like system failures because of our caching. We run everything serverless by the way, I don't know if I said that, but we runeverything serverless. You can do this thing called provision concurrency in AWS that you can run serverless, but you always have a function, warm and ready. The biggest cache that we have is actually just your normal CDN caching that you can put on front of GraphQL. They can cache for 15, 20 minutes.

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