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Increasing Cache Hit Rates with Query String Sort

Jul 7, 2015Rajeev Sharma
Increasing Cache Hit Rates with Query String Sort
SummaryAI, from the source post

Introduced Query String Sort, an Enterprise-level feature that sorts query string arguments in a URL into a deterministic order before caching. This ensures that URLs with the same parameters but different orders are treated as identical, thereby increasing cache hit rates. The feature is particularly beneficial for API servers where query string argument order may not be significant but can lead to cache misses by default. The post explains the problem of query string permutations and how Query String Sort solves it.

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