Caching

Managed proxy caching and the cache layer that sits in front of your HTTP container.

3 articles

• Cache-Control and TTL

  Freshness is the heart of any cache: how long a stored response counts as current, and what happens when it goes stale. This article explains how the proxy cache decides freshness, how to tune it with size and TTL, how to invalidate entries, and how it falls back to your origin.

  3 min

• Proxy cache vs Memcached

  Bahriya gives you two ways to cache, and they solve different problems. The proxy cache sits transparently in front of an HTTP container and caches whole responses. Memcached is an application-controlled key-value store your code reads and writes directly. This article helps you pick — and shows how they work together.

  3 min

• Proxy Caching

  Proxy caching puts a managed response cache in front of your HTTP container. Repeat requests for the same URL are served from the cache instead of reaching your container, so origin load drops, tail latency improves, and bursty read traffic stops eating your compute budget.

  5 min