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