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Comment by pyvpx

3 hours ago

How does that quip go again…there are only two difficulties in computer science, cache invalidation, naming things, and counting.

Going from one CDN to another can be infuriating even at a surprisingly small scale. Mostly (imo) from caching semantics and counting.

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amelius  3 hours ago

Can you give a practical example?

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