Caching is one of the most underused tools for making APIs fast and affordable. Thoughtful use of HTTP caching, edge caching, and cache headers reduces load and improves the consumer experience at the same time. I design caching into the contract rather than treating it as an afterthought.
Caching
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Caching Strategy Defined
Every API should define a caching strategy and express it through explicit Cache-Control headers on responses that can safely be reused. I require that providers decide, per operation, what is cach...
Caching (Operations)
Require that every read-heavy API sets explicit HTTP caching headers, so I want Cache-Control, ETag, and Last-Modified in play with sensible max-age and validation behavior spelled out in the contr...
