Caching

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things.

– Attributed to Phil Karlton

General caching:

• Cache

Web-specific caching:

• HTTP Caching
• Caching best practices & max-age gotchas
• Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters
• A Guide to Caching with NGINX and NGINX Plus
  • Cache Placement Strategies for NGINX and NGINX Plus
  • Nginx Caching
• Caching Guide (Apache)
• Web Caching Basics: Terminology, HTTP Headers, and Caching Strategies

Framework-specific caching:

• Django’s cache framework
• Client side caching (Hapi.js)

Platform-specific:

• Understanding caching in Postgres - An in-depth guide
• Caching Dependencies and Directories (Travis CI)
• CDN Caching

Advanced:

• Caching for a Global Netflix

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Belady’s optimal page replacement policy

• NRU: Not Recently Used

• LRU: Least Recently Used
• LFU: Least Frequently Used
• FIFO: First In, First Out
• MRU: Most Recently Used
• Second-chance

• Clock

• https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/wiki/ArchitectureLRU