You’d be surprised how far you can get with even the dumbest possible caching strategy. I’m talking about something like a server side memcache that just blows

You’d be surprised how far you can get with even the dumbest possible caching strategy. I’m talking about something like a server side memcache that just blows everything away on any non-log write. If your baseline is so a new fetch every single time anyway, it doesn’t take much to achieve some pretty impressive wins.