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It’s not working! Should I blame caching? (shouldiblamecaching.com)
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[–] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 43 points 4 days ago (2 children)

I once had a problem that wasn't caused by chaching.

It was caused by cache invalidation.

[–] thejml@lemm.ee 31 points 4 days ago

There are two hard problems in computing, naming things, cache invalidation, and off by one errors.

[–] PM_Your_Nudes_Please@lemmy.world 15 points 4 days ago

I once had a problem that wasn’t caused by caching. It was caused by Accounts Payable forgetting to pay the internet bill, and the ISP cutting our service halfway through a network test. So the beginning of the test cached that the network had internet access, but then the end of the- wait fuck it was caused by caching