ng">Cache sharing</h3><p>At the moment, each Mixer instance operates independently of all other instances. A request handled by one Mixer instance will not leverage data cached in a different instance. We will eventually experiment with a distributed cache such as memcached or Redis in order to provide a much larger mesh-wide shared cache, and further reduce the number of calls to infrastructure backends.</p><h3 id="sharding">Sharding</h3><p>In very large meshes, the load on Mixer can be great. There can be