August 2017 Drupal User Group: Advanced Caching Techniques for Drupal 8 Presented by Pantheon

The San Francisco Drupal User Group (SFDUG) has been running strong for over a decade. Month after month, the community comes together to share high-quality content—from developers, for developers. These meetups are hosted at the Chapter Three office on the second Tuesday of every month, from 6:30–8:30 PM.

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Speaker

David Strauss
CTO and Co-founder of Pantheon

What the Talk Covered

Visitors won’t wait for slow pages—and neither will Google. If you’re not ready to rewrite your stack in Java or deploy HHVM at scale, then your best bet is smarter caching. But caching is only as effective as its hit rate and freshness—two factors that often work against each other.

In this session, David explored advanced caching strategies built into Drupal 8, including support for modern web standards like:

• Surrogate-Key
• Surrogate-Control
• Vary headers

These techniques help deliver fast, fresh responses to users across the globe—without sacrificing developer control or editorial workflow integrity.