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5th July 2007 - Link Blog

Clever Caching. Instead of invalidating your cache directly, bump a version number on your model (blog entry or whatever) and use that as part of the cache key. This also gives you dynamic etags for free.

Posted 5th July 2007 at 12:56 am

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