53: Cache Machine

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

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