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Making AWS News stupid fast with smart caching


As I’m typing this, Re:Invent 2024 is only weeks away. In anticipation of AWS News’ busiest period of the year, I redesigned the API access patterns to support very efficient caching. This re…

In anticipation of https://aws-news.com ‘s busiest period of the year, I redesigned the API access patterns to support very effective caching. Then I optimized my API for caching, leading to much, much faster response times and initial renders, but at the cost of additional complexity in the frontend. Finally, the asynchronously loading UI is much faster, but required additional UX work to make it visually acceptable.

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