HTTP Caching

HTTP caching describes mechanisms and rules for storing HTTP responses to reduce latency, bandwidth usage, and backend load.

HTTP caching controls how responses are stored, reused, and expired to reduce latency and bandwidth usage.

Maturity

Established

Cognitive loadMedium

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HTTP Caching

360°

2

2

Integrations

CDNs (e.g., Cloudflare, Fastly, AWS CloudFront)

+2

1

Be explicit about cache validity: define TTL and validation.

Value stream stage: Build

4

3

4