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Browser Caching best practices, when to use no-cache vs max-age without breaking your site

The Backend Engineering Show with Hussein Nasser

English - April 07, 2021 05:00 - 18 minutes - 10.9 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratings
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Caching is the hardest problem in building software, and having the browser cache is not any different. In this video, I'll discuss Jake Archibald's article


https://jakearchibald.com/2016/caching-best-practices/


0:00 Intro


2:00 Pattern 1: Immutable content + long max-age


5:40 Pattern 2: Mutable content, always server-revalidated


8:00 max-age on mutable content is often the wrong choice


12:20 CDN and Caching


Article


https://jakearchibald.com/2016/caching-best-practices/


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