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by anonacct37 917 days ago
This is an underrated capability (patching up requests) that many devops folks often take advantage of in platforms like haproxy, nginx, etc.

I once worked at a company where someone pushed a release that added timestamp based cache busters to every js/css file. We used a similar approach to just drop that query parameter at the edge, which allowed us to get cache hits and stop serving every single asset from object storage.