753: Cache Ruins Everything Around Me

On this episode, Scott and Wes dig into the messy reality of modern front-end work, from struggling to find skilled devs and navigating team chaos to questioning code quality, testing, and even whether AI is stealing the joy of programming. Show Notes 00:00 Welcome to Syntax 01:0 ...  Show more

Scott and Wes react to the freshly released State of AI 2026 survey, covering everything from skyrocketing AI adoption and the rise of coding agents to the pain points, job security fears, and big philosophical questions developers are wrestling with right now. Show Notes 00:00 W ...  Show more

In this episode of the backend engineering show we discuss an article written by the Forem team illustarting a bug they recently fixed in their caching layers. They go into good level of details explaining the 3 levels of caching that they have. I go through this article in th ...

Caching is the hardest problem in building software, and having the browser cache is not any different. In this video, I'll discuss Jake Archibald's article

https://jakearchibald.com/2016/caching-best-practices/

0:00 Intro

2:00 Pattern 1: Immutable content ...

In this episode, we’re diving deep into one of the recent announcements from AWS re:Invent, the release of Amazon ElasticCache Serverless. This new option allows customers to create a cache in under a minute and instantly scale capacity based on application traffic patterns. Jill ...  Show more

In this video I go through the three type of caching and how it is kept in sync.

0:00 Intro

0:30 What is Caching?

1:20 Spatial Cache

3:30 Temporal Cache

5:00 Distributed cache

6:30 Write-Through Cache

8:00 Write-Back Cache