Leverage HTTP to deliver cacheable Drupal websites

Speaker(s)
Session track
Code & Development
Experience level
Intermediate
Duration
50 min

Websites, web applications and APIs, they all speak HTTP. As a developer most of us are familiar with HTTP, but when it actually comes to creating cacheable web content, there is still a lot to be learned.

In this presentation I will show you how to leverage specific headers to achieve a maximum hit rate without losing touch with some of the challenges of real-life web projects.

 

The following topics will be covered:

  • The syntax of cache-control headers
  • How to use cache-control headers to control whether or not to cache
  • How to use cache-control headers to control the time to live of our cached objects
  • How to deal with cookies 
  • How to separate stateful from stateless content
  • How to architect content blocks in your code using Edge Side Includes and AJAX
  • How to boost your performance by adding a reverse cache proxy like Varnish
  • How to invalidate your cache
  • How to leverage Content Delivery Networks
  • How to create cache variations
  • How to reduce backend load and bandwidth by performing conditional HTTP requests
  • How Page Cache, Dynamic Page Cache & BigPipe offer out-of-the-box solutions