Solution Engineering — Data Federation

Federation & Caching

Two notes on the same idea: in a composable storefront, how you fetch data and how you cache it are the same decision.

Part 1 · Caching

Data Federation Tradeoffs

Why storefront pages fetch the CMS before commerce, how caching makes that cheap, the four-layer cache stack, what not to cache in commerce, and a do's & don'ts cheat sheet.

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Part 2 · Orchestration

The Orchestration Tradeoff

Merging many backend calls into one is easy. Deciding what belongs in the same response — and so the same cache entry — is the real work. The four couplings, when to merge, and a worked PLP example.

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