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Application Request Routing: Benefits of caching
As you know, ARRv2 RC was released a few weeks ago. (To learn more about ARRv2, click here. Download x64 or x86.) With ARRv2 RC, ARR now has two cache tiers, kernel memory cache and disk cache. I think people in general understand the benefits of caching (reduced latency, reduction in bandwidth consumption, etc) but recently, a customer who has deployed ARRv2 RC in production sent me the following data. The customer is using ARR as a reverse proxy to load balance the requests to several content servers.