Spring Boot + Caffeine: Multi-Level Cache Architecture, Consistency & Load Tests
This article details integrating Caffeine with Spring Boot 3.x for a three-tier L1/L2/DB cache architecture, covering Window TinyLFU internals, refreshAfterWrite vs expireAfterWrite, manual vs annotation-driven integration, read/write paths, message-driven invalidation with version stamps, load test results showing 48k QPS at 2ms P99, and production tuning for memory, GC, and hot-key protection.
