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Comment by aleksandrm

10 hours ago

This is nothing new and doesn't add anything new to the topic, so am I the only that thinks this is just an attempt at boosting their SEO through HN?

It clearly notes that it's "a refresher", does not claim that it's novel research, and extensively links to the reference documents. It is, essentially, a review article (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Review_article). And there's absolutely nothing wrong with that.

Hell, the author could probably have called it a primer and I think it'd have been fair.

I’m sorry you didn’t get anything out of it. I wasn’t operating at the edge of caching knowledge, just a person refreshing and clarifying for themselves how caching works. Some things were new to me, and after spending so much time with the RFC, I just thought others may benefit or, more selfishly, would point out errors or ways to make it better.

I mean, do those <meta> tags really suggest someone who’s into SEO? Call me stale but what I really want is validation :-)