Spring Boot Multi-Level Cache: Caffeine + Redis Design with Consistency & 78K QPS
This article details a production-grade Spring Boot multi-level caching architecture using Caffeine L1 and Redis L2 to solve database IO bottlenecks in read-heavy scenarios, covering consistency solutions via MQ async with idempotency, defenses against cache penetration, breakdown, and avalanche, and load test results showing 78K QPS with 5.2ms P99 latency.
