Developing cacheable backend applications
This is a video recording of a meetup sponsored by Blackfire.io and hosted by Datadog HQ in NYC, on Mon, July 22, 2019.
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Talk by Thijs Feryn, Technical Evangelist at Varnish Software Group
Most of us are familiar with HTTP, but when it actually comes to creating cacheable web content, there is still a lot to be learned.
In this presentation I will show you how to leverage specific mechanism to achieve a good hit rate without losing touch with some of the challenges of real-life web projects.
Keywords: cache control, cache variations, conditional requests, stateful content, HTTP fragments, cache invalidation and edge-side logic.
The goal is to empower developers to control the behavior of reverse caching proxies like Varnish, Content Delivery Networks, or even browser cache, using the power of HTTP.