Python Web Apps that Fly with CDNs Transcripts
Chapter: Avoiding Stale Caches
Lecture: Welcome to fresh caches
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At this point, you're probably pretty excited about all the possibilities that CDNs can
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offer with their caching of our files, static small files, as well as our large ones throughout the globe.
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And I've shown you a lot of the positives, but now it's time to address one of the drawbacks or potential negatives that this can lead to. Stale files.
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How bad of a problem this is depends on what files it is and how much they have changed. So for example, maybe we've made a change to some image
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and because the way the cache works, maybe a user's already seen that file, that image, and they come back and instead of seeing the new image,
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they see the old one. That might sound bad, but it's actually the least of the problems you're gonna run into. A way bigger problem would be,
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If we try to completely redesign the site and we change the CSS, and then we also change the HTML that requires that CSS to be changed,
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but the CSS file stays cached, our website just won't look new, it'll look completely broken. So this is really important to understand and fix.
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Now, what's awesome about this chapter is what I'm gonna show you here will basically automatically fix it,
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keep it up to date and always, always in sync. There'll never ever be a stale cached file that you're gonna run into if you follow these techniques.
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And this is applicable to standard web deployments, not just CDNs. So really easy to fix, but it's something you absolutely need to be aware of
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because it's something you're gonna run into sooner or later.