Development & Performance

Friday Afternoon Unconference

Session Category Back End | Business Development | Case Study | Community | DevOps | Drupal Core | Emerging Technology | Front End | PHP / Symfony | Project Management | Site Building | User Experience & Accessibility | User Interface & Design | New to Drupal | Development & Performance | Project Management & Consulting | Off the "Drupal Island" | Site-Building | Theming, Design, & Usability Room Acquia (114) Audience All Attendees Speaker(s) Aeryn Jackson
If you are interested in Drupal and keen on spending an afternoon chatting with and learning from, other like-minded folks, be sure to make it to this year’s Unconference! While Drupal is the focus, we will also welcome talks on other related topics!

Ctrl+F5 Won't Save You: Strategies for Static Asset Caching

Session Category Back End | Development & Performance Room Mt. Mitchell (226) Audience Intermediate Speaker(s) Chris Burge
By default, Drupal instructs external caches (Varnish, CDN, browser, etc) to cache static assets, such as CSS, PDF, and JPG, for 1 year. Without a caching strategy for static assets, you're likely to experience some headaches with these files. In this session, we'll cover the Purge, Purge File, and Media Entity File Replace contrib modules, along with several others. We'll also dive into the Cache-Control header and how it can be leveraged to manage external caches.