Caching best practices & max-age gotchas
A reallyreally
reallygood overview of how caching works shown through the medium of group text messaging (seriously, just read the article… it’s worth it)
Getting caching right yields huge performance benefits, saves bandwidth, and reduces server costs, but many sites half-arse their caching, creating race conditions resulting in interdependent resources getting out of sync.
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