Web caching

[wassfila]

Naming

• Reverse proxy
• Managed cache
• Surrogates - intermediaries

Concepts

• managed
• in-memory
• data store

Frameworks

• varnish : https://varnish-cache.org/
• redis : https://redis.io/docs/manual/client-side-caching/

Providers

• fastly : https://docs.fastly.com/en/fundamentals/what-is-caching
• netlify :
  • https://www.netlify.com/blog/2015/09/11/instant-cache-invalidation/#main
  • https://docs.netlify.com/configure-builds/on-demand-builders/
• vercel : https://vercel.com/docs/concepts/edge-network/caching
• firebase : https://firebase.google.com/docs/hosting/manage-cache
• aws : https://aws.amazon.com/caching/aws-caching/
• azure : https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/products/cache/

Methods

Headers

• Cache-Control

• Expires

• Surrogate-Control

• Surrogate-Key

• Last-Modified

• ETag

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers#caching

• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers#conditionals

API

• Purge API

References

• https://www.w3.org/TR/edge-arch/

modules

• https://www.npmjs.com/package/@e-xisto/astro-netlify