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For any performant decoupled Drupal architecture, the topic of caching is of paramount importance but also fraught with extreme variation due to differences across implementations. It is further complicated by the fact that there is a limited range of open source solutions, Contenta.js (see Chapter 16) notwithstanding, which act as a reverse proxy for improved performance on consumer applications.

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    Strauss, David. “Effective API Caching: Achieving High Hit Rates When Your Client Is a Decoupled Front End.” Decoupled Drupal Days 2018. 18 August 2018. Accessed 29 August 2018. https://2018.decoupleddays.com/session/effective-api-caching-achieving-high-hit-rates-when-your-client-decoupled-front-end

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    “Cache tags.” Drupal.org. 4 December 2017. Accessed 30 August 2018. https://www.drupal.org/docs/8/api/cache-api/cache-tags

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    “Reverse Proxy.” Wikipedia. 26 August 2018. Accessed 30 August 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reverse_proxy

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    “Content Delivery Network.” Wikipedia. 24 August 2018. Accessed 30 August 2018. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network

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    “Introduction to Varnish.” Varnish. 2016. Accessed 30 August 2018. https://varnish-cache.org/intro/index.html

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So, P. (2018). Caching. In: Decoupled Drupal in Practice. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-4072-4_25

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