Edge Caching Strategies Adapt to Handle Bursty Agent Query Patterns

## Human Traffic Was Predictable, Agent Traffic Isn't CDN caching strategies were largely built around human browsing patterns -- popular pages get requested repeatedly and cache well. Agent queries tend to be more varied and specific, which caches less effectively under those older assumptions. ## What's Changing Edge providers are experimenting with shorter, smarter cache windows tuned to agent query patterns, along with request-coalescing techniques that combine near-duplicate agent queries hitting the same underlying data rather than treating each as fully unique. ## Why It's Worth the Engineering Effort As agent-originated traffic grows as a share of total requests, the cost difference between a cache-friendly and cache-unfriendly architecture compounds quickly at scale, making this optimization worth the investment for high-traffic platforms.