Two New HTTP Caching Extensions

[Michael S. Fischer]

On Tue, Apr 8, 2008 at 4:34 PM, Ricardo Newbery <ric at digitalmarbles.com> wrote:
> > I should add a qualifier to my vote, that stale-while-revalidate
> > generally is used to mask suboptimal backend performance and so I
> > discourage it in favor of fixing the backend.
>
>  Of course the main premise of a reverse-proxy cache is to mask suboptimal
> backend performance.  :-)

Except, in this case, you are presumably already relieving your
backend of a significant burden with your cache.  if your backend is
*still* unable to process requests to fulfill a request from the
caching layer within a reasonable time, you're in serious trouble
indeed.

--Michael