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This general introduction explains cache invalidation concepts. If you arealready familiar with cache invalidation, you may wish to skip this chapter.

HTTP Caching Terminology¶

Client

The client that requests web representations of the application data.This client can be visitor of a website, or for instance a client thatfetches data from a REST API.

Application

Also backend application or origin server. The web application thatholds the data.

Proxy Server

Also reverse caching proxy.Examples: Varnish, NGINX, Symfony HttpCache.

Time to live (TTL)

Maximum lifetime of some content. Expressed in either an expiry datefor the content (the Expires: header) or its maximum age (themax-age and s-maxage cache control directives).

Invalidation

Invalidating a piece of content means telling the proxy server to nolonger serve that content to clients. The proxy can choose to eitherdiscard the content immediately, or do so when it is next requested.On that next request, the proxy will fetch a fresh copy from theapplication.

What is Cache Invalidation?¶

There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation andnaming things.

– Phil Karlton

The problem¶

HTTP caching is a great solution for improving the performance of your webapplication. For lower load on the application and fastest response time, youwant to cache content for a long period. But at the same time, you want yourclients to see fresh content as soon as there is an update.

Instead of finding some compromise, you can have both with cache invalidation.When application data changes, the application takes care of invalidating itsweb representation as out-of-date. Although proxy servers may handleinvalidation differently, the effect is always the same: the next time a clientrequests the data, he or she gets a new version instead of the outdated one.

Alternatives¶

There are three alternatives to cache invalidation.

1. The first is to expire your cached content quickly by reducing its time tolive (TTL). However, short TTLs cause a higher load on the applicationbecause content must be fetched from it more often. Moreover, reduced TTLdoes not guarantee that clients will have fresh content, especially if thecontent changes very rapidly as a result of client interactions with theapplication.
2. The second alternative is to validate the freshness of cached content atevery request. Again, this means more load on your application, even if youreturn early (for instance by using HEAD requests).
3. The last resort is to not cache volatile content at all. While thisguarantees the user always sees changes without delay, it obviouslyincreases your application load even more.

Cache invalidation gives you the best of both worlds: you can have very longTTLs, so when content changes little, it can be served from the cache becauseno requests to your application are required. At the same time, when datadoes change, that change is reflected without delay in the web representations.

Disadvantages¶

Cache invalidation has two possible downsides:

• Invalidating cached web representations when their underlying data changescan be very simple. For instance, invalidate /articles/123 when article 123is updated. However, data usually is represented not in one but in multiplerepresentations. Article 123 could also be represented on the articles index(/articles), the list of articles in the current year (/articles/current)and in search results (/search?name=123). In this case, when article 123 ischanged, a lot more is involved in invalidating all of its representations.In other words, invalidation adds a layer of complexity to your application.This library tries to help reduce complexity, for instance bytagging cached content. Additionally, if you use Symfony, werecommend you use the FOSHttpCacheBundle.which provides additional functionality to make invalidation easier.
• Invalidation is done through requests to your proxy server. Sending theserequests could negatively influence performance, in particular if the clienthas to wait for them. This library resolves this issue by optimizing the wayinvalidation requests are sent.

Invalidation Methods¶

Cached content can be invalidated in three ways. Not all proxy servers supportall methods, please refer to proxy specific documentation for the details.

Purge removes content from the proxy server immediately. The next time aclient requests the URL, data is fetched from the application, stored inthe proxy server, and returned to the client.

A purge removes all variants of the cached content, as per the Varyheader.

Fetch the requested page from the backend immediately, even if there wouldnormally be a cache hit. The content is not just deleted from the cache,but is replaced with a new version fetched from the application.

As fetching is done with the parameters of the refresh request, othervariants of the same content will not be touched.

Unlike purge, ban does not remove the content from the cacheimmediately. Instead, a reference to the content is added to a blacklist (orban list). Every client request is checked against this blacklist. If therequest happens to match blacklisted content, fresh content is fetched from theapplication, stored in the proxy server and returned to the client.

Bans cannot remove content from cache immediately because that would requiregoing through all cached content, which could take a long time and reduceperformance of the cache.

The ban solution may seem cumbersome, but offers more powerful cacheinvalidation, such as selecting content to be banned by regular expressions.This opens the way for powerful invalidation schemes, such as tagging cacheentries.

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So how can you to clear/flush Amazon Cloudfront cache and purge files to empty cache across the Amazon CDN? This will refresh files and update your website look and content. I use their amazingly fast CDN service and had some difficulty in finding a way to purge files. My blog would simply not refresh content cached in Cloudfront even after changing files.

Here is the way so you don’t have to get stuck with flushing Cloudfront cache!

What is Amazon Cloudfront Caching

Cloudfront is the content delivery network service of Amazon Web Services (AWS) which allows users to host files that can be accessed at the fastest speed from server nearest to them. Typically CDN‘s help to make sites faster as the content is delivered at a much faster speed from geographically nearby servers, rather than searching for that content from your webhosting server.

I have been using Cloudflare CDN for quite some time but off and on over the years. Recently after switching to my superfast A2 hosting, I decided to use the Amazon Cloudfront CDN network to further speed up my website caching across the world.

Now the initial setup might seem a little tedious for beginners – with first creating a bucket in S3 (which is the simple storage service of Amazon, where we backup websites) and then linking it to create a cloud distribution network with Cloudfront with bucket policy, etc. and after reading of many guides and manuals.

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However, I found it even more daunting than once I uploaded new versions of the images or CSS files they would simply fail to refresh on our website. But then that is what the purpose of the CDN is that it will host the content and cache it across various worldwide servers.

So how do you clear CloudFront cache and replace these old files to refresh the content that you uploaded in the S3 bucket?

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So they call the processes to empty cache as Invalidation!

I am not sure why they can’t use simple easy to understand language like clear cache or flush cache or purge files which would make it much more user-friendly and more easy to understand. There would be no need to write such an article if it was so easy to find.

A huge advantage of this process is you can invalidate particular files or folders which you want to refresh or delete rather than press a single ‘clear cache button’ and clear the entire S3 bucket across the network.

For simple bloggers who hold a limited number of files such as theme logos, theme CSS files or maybe some social image sharing buttons it would not be much of a difference. But if someone is hosting a huge network of resources, then such a one-click power flush button would lead to usage of a lot of resources and maybe it is not required to simply refresh one file.

How to Refresh Cloudfront Cache?

Go to your Cloudfront distribution > Click invalidations tab

Type folder or a specific image which you want to invalidate

That’s it… Cloudfront will invalidate this content and grab the fresh new files from the S3 bucket and then refresh and cache it across their networks.

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It also logs the history of past invalidations, so you can simply copy the request and do repeated cache purges if you want to keep refreshing particular files frequently.

Test and see that the new files are working now.