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TTL & Cache-Key Choices: Hit Ratio from Zipf Popularity

Lesson 5 of 820 minLab

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In this lesson

You model how popular Glimmerline's 100,000 article images are with a Zipf distribution, estimate the hit ratio at one edge for a given TTL and compare four TTL and cache-key scenarios.

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Lessons in this course

  1. Request Hit Ratio vs Byte Hit Ratio by Content TypeLab15 min Locked
  2. Origin Offload: Origin Load in Requests per Second & Servers NeededLab15 min Locked
  3. Tiered Egress Pricing: the Monthly Bandwidth BillLab15 min Locked
  4. Total Cost With vs Without a CDNLab15 min Locked
  5. TTL & Cache-Key Choices: Hit Ratio from Zipf PopularityLab20 min Locked
  6. Latency Gain: Edge vs Origin Round Trips Weighted by Hit RatioLab15 min Locked
  7. Image Optimisation: Bytes Saved by Resizing & FormatLab15 min Locked
  8. Traffic Forecast & the Commit-Contract Decision (Chart)Lab20 min Locked