If you have ever bought milk at the supermarket, then you can understand server-side and browser-side caching.
If you are an avid internet user (y...
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I can't look at supply chains without thinking caching. Being really into caching as a dev and having studied some of the supply stuff in school, I see this stuff everywhere.
BTW, this is a pretty interesting post on these concepts:
The Cuban CDN
Wow! Yeah definitely a physical representation of caching. Did not know that still happened in the year 2016, hopefully that has changed in last 2 years.
I'd heard a much more rudimentary version of this analogy but the way you broke it down made the bigger picture really clear! I like that you covered both server and browser caching, things make more sense now. Thanks for this explanation!
Very welcome Tag :)
Great post ! Your explication with the milk/farm is awesome, it helps a lot to understand how the cache works.
Thanks Thomas!
Wow! Great analogy!
This is a great article! I feel ashamed how much I didn't know about caching as a web developer.
May I translate this article into Korean and share to other developers in Korea?
Yep go ahead. Please credite CodeAnalaogies for the original article and link back to it: blog.codeanalogies.com/2018/06/11/...
Sure thing! :)
Thank you for the great article. We’ve at Alconost got so inspired that we’ve translated it into Russian so that our non-English speaking colleagues can read it too habr.com/company/alconost/blog/416...
Awesome! I was totally confused about caching before, but this makes is so easy to understand. Thanks!
I like this.
Haha, gonna need to think about that one :)
I know this was written a while ago, but still doing a great job of explaining caching!