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		wyes on June 6, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Zipf's Law (2008) Zipf’s law is also super useful for web caching

thunkshift1 on June 6, 2022 [–]

How will you use it for web caching?

dredmorbius on June 7, 2022 | [–]

Requests follow an inverse log relationship of request frequency.

A little caching buys you tremendous savings in regeneration or back-end fetching.

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