Edge caching
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What is request coalescing? Request coalescing is a mechanism commonly used in edge caching. It prevents simultaneous requests from hitting the origin at the same time by allowing only one request to populate the edge cache with the response from the origin. All other requests wait until the cache is populated, and then serve the…
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I recently wrote a guide on optimizing and debugging edge caching on the WordPress VIP platform. As a Systems Engineer at Automattic, I work on our Edge infrastructure, which includes WordPress VIP, amongst other Automattic’s products. In the blog post, you can learn how to significantly improve WordPress or Node.js application performance on the WordPress…
Cache & Carry 