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It’s not working! Should I blame caching? (shouldiblamecaching.com)

submitted 1 week ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I once had a problem that wasn't caused by chaching.

It was caused by cache invalidation.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 week ago

There are two hard problems in computing, naming things, cache invalidation, and off by one errors.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 week ago

I once had a problem that wasn’t caused by caching. It was caused by Accounts Payable forgetting to pay the internet bill, and the ISP cutting our service halfway through a network test. So the beginning of the test cached that the network had internet access, but then the end of the- wait fuck it was caused by caching