The Bike Shed

Laila and Derek go on a tour of the various caching mechanisms available to web applications in general, and Rails specifically. When is the right time to cache and at what level? The Road to 2 Million Websocket Connections in Phoenix by Gary Rennie Toxic Synovitis Memoization is a Liability by Henrik Nyh Use a leading underscore for memoization Two Hard Things in Computer Science Rails SQL Cache Low-Level Caching (Rails.cache.fetch) Association counter_cache Fragment Caching Introduction to Conditional HTTP Caching With Rails by Damian Galarza A Guide to Caching Your Rails Application with Fastly by Jessie Young Caching Tutorial for Web Authors and Webmasters by Mark Nottingham Web Fundamentals: HTTP Caching