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But everyone sees the same edited version when not logged in, which is the vast majority of users, so you can just throw a huge cache in front, which is what th
by marcan_42 6y ago
But everyone sees the same edited version when not logged in, which is the vast majority of users, so you can just throw a huge cache in front, which is what they do. And most edits only touch one page, so the churn is tiny relative to the cache size.
This is a much easier service to reliably engineer than something like Twitter. For SRE purposes, Wikipedia is mostly static.