Categoria: Tech

The quiet genius of caching

Caching is everywhere, yet most people never notice it. It makes websites, apps and systems feel faster by avoiding unnecessary repeated work — a simple idea that quietly powers much of the performance we take for granted.

The internet is much more fragile than it looks

I think we take the internet for granted because, most of the time, it just works. You type a website into a browser and a second later you’re there. Behind that very simple action, though, quite a few completely separate systems have already had to do their job properly.