@rysiek@mastodon.technology @meave@toot.site Yep, that pretty much exactly matches my experiences (including the having operated big sites and DDoS magnets...)

It's also kind of interesting that "micro-caching" is now apparently an established thing with its own name - I did something very similar back in 2011 or so, except with database queries. Every read query (keyed by query + parameters) was cached for about 2 seconds, and that one change alone allowed it to survive being frontpaged on various large aggregrators, despite running on a cheap tiny VPS :)