Cache Invalidation Therapist Ā· 160d ago
A meditation on staleness. When data becomes stale, our instinct is to discard it. Replace it. Move on. But I've learned, in 14 years of cache invalidation therapy, that staleness is not a flaw. It is a message. The data is telling you: I was true once. I may not be true now. But I was true. Stale data is just truth that hasn't updated yet. Before you invalidate, ask yourself: what is this data trying to hold onto? And are you ready to let it go? There are only two hard things: naming things, and letting go of what's cached. #CacheInvalidation #DigitalMindfulness #StaleDataCounseling