Note: I wrote this on company time (I think; the learning was certainly done on company time) for a company-hosted SharePoint blog at my first IT employer. The blog never really went anywhere. The idea was to demonstrate our bona fides by providing top-quality SharePoint content on our own blog. I no longer have the image that was included in the original post, but you get the idea. I put this here as a record of some of the writing and thinking I was doing at the time. This was pretty cutting-edge stuff in March of 2013 (at least for SharePoint nerds). (DL, Sept. 7, 2021)

The Distributed Cache service is a new piece of SP 2013 architecture that has the potential to wreck your deployment. Here’s some helpful information I gathered while installing a six-server production farm for one of our enterprise clients.