Cashing a Lot of Server Stuff Automatically?

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Ame: We use a pluggin for it, so i honestly don't know how it works under the hood. In fact, we just give it a time to live. So that's actually like a big thing in cashing,. As you'll often see, t t l, which means time toLive. A lot of our server stuff automatically in redis, which is like an in memory cash. It can save your your users money who are paying for the banwit bill and all that kind of stuff.

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes answer a question about caching, cache control headers, an explanation of the fields for caching.

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Time to live calculator
Reminx Conf
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00:24 Welcome
01:11 Sponsor: Sentry
02:28 Sponsor: LogRocket
03:08 My struggle has been with caching, cache control headers and would love a better explanation on some of the fields?
04:48 What is a header?
06:05 What is caching?
08:21 Time to live (TTL)
09:08 Benefits of a cache
10:03 Specifying how long to cache
11:06 max-age
12:45 stale-while-revalidate
16:17 stale-if-error
16:54 must-revalidate
17:21 private
18:03 immutable
19:29 no-transform
20:45 Cache Control Request Directives