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With some experimentation, we've determined that it is not necessary for the site to function these days. There's no noticeable effect on p90 or p99 response times in the loggedout cache pool and several large traffic events have occurred while the pagecache was off. By removing this layer, we reduce complexity, remove a possible source of poisoning bugs, and make it easier to do stuff like logged out A/B experiments.
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