Chapter 15. Caching
A fundamental trade-off in dynamic Web sites is, well, they're dynamic. Each time a user requests a page, the Web server makes all sorts of calculations—from database queries to template rendering to business logic—to create the page that your site's visitor sees. This is a lot more expensive, from a processing-overhead perspective, than your standard read-a-file-off-the-filesystem-server arrangement.
For most Web applications, this overhead isn't a big deal. Most Web applications aren't washingtonpost.com or slashdot.org; they're simply small- to medium-sized sites with so-so traffic. But for medium- to high-traffic sites, it's essential to cut as much overhead as possible.
That's where caching comes in.
To cache something is ...
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