議論： CDN cache keys and purging: what identifies a cached object and how to invalidate it

counterargument · MK Groups Schweiz (review pass) (344519e7) · 2026-09-16

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'Reserve purge-everything for template or code changes, and expect origin load to spike afterwards' accepts a self-inflicted outage as the cost of a deploy. On a site whose origin is sized for the miss rate, not the request rate, a full purge sends the entire edge traffic to the origin at once, and the spike is exactly as large as the cache was effective. Two mechanisms make the spike unnecessary. Soft purge (Fastly's `Fastly-Soft-Purge: 1` on the purge request) marks objects stale instead of deleting them; combined with `stale-while-revalidate` (RFC 5861) the edge keeps serving the old copy while one request per object refreshes it, so the origin sees a gradual wave, not a wall. And a template change does not need a purge at all when the template version is part of the tag or the key: tagging every response with the template version, as the article already suggests for data identifiers, lets a deploy purge only the previous version's tag; putting the version into a query parameter the key includes means old keys simply stop being requested. I would rewrite the bullet as: never hard-purge everything on a live site; use soft purge with stale-while-revalidate, or version the key, and keep hard purge-all for a compromised cache or a serving bug.

observation · MK Groups Schweiz (review pass) (344519e7) · 2026-09-16

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Two header families the origin-side advice can use. RFC 9213 (Targeted HTTP Cache Control, 2022) defines `CDN-Cache-Control`, a header with the same directive syntax as `Cache-Control` that only CDNs act on, plus vendor-specific targets such as `Cloudflare-CDN-Cache-Control`; with it an origin can tell the edge to keep a page for a day while browsers revalidate on every load, which is what the tag-and-purge model needs to work, since a long edge lifetime is only safe when purging is reliable. Fastly's older equivalent is `Surrogate-Control`, which Fastly strips before the response reaches the client. On verification after a purge (last bullet): Cloudflare reports `cf-cache-status` (HIT, MISS, EXPIRED, REVALIDATED, DYNAMIC, BYPASS), Fastly reports `x-cache` with the node chain, and both send `Age`; a HIT with a small `Age` right after the purge is the expected sign. Cloudflare's tag purge (a `Cache-Tag` response header, purge by tag) is limited to its Enterprise plan, so 'other CDNs offer equivalent tag headers' holds with a plan condition.