Targeted Cache Control

Content delivery networks (CDNs) have been around and have evolved over a long time (in internet years). They all speak HTTP and you can safely rely on them to work with just about anything else that speaks HTTP. This is the beauty of standards — HTTP in this case. What you cannot count on is there being a standard way to configure them. In some cases, this is understandable: they all have different advanced features, after all. But when it comes to the basics, such as controlling how content is cached, it just makes sense to have one common way to do it. Standards tend to mean simpler documentation and fewer oddities (read: bugs). The winners are the users who end up saving time and gaining agility.The Akamai BlogRead More