<p>Happy New Year and Welcome back!</p><p><strong>Description:</strong> <br />At our January session, Sergey Chernyshev will talk about <strong>caching</strong> in web applications, importance of cache, best practices and how to approach cache planning. <br />He will cover... [read more]

&lt;p&gt;Happy New Year and Welcome back!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Description:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;At our January session, Sergey Chernyshev will talk about &lt;strong&gt;caching&lt;/strong&gt; in web applications, importance of cache, best practices and how to approach cache planning. &lt;br /&gt;He will cover caching in general sense and will go into detail about HTTP caching and how to control it. Sergey will talk about cache invalidation - the biggest problem in caching and describe different ways to address it for browser caches.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sergey Chernyshev&lt;/strong&gt; works at truTV (formerly known as Court TV) and responsible for web technology for their highly trafficked web site &lt;a href=&quot;<a href="http://www.trutv.com/&quot;" target="_blank">http://www.trutv.com/...</a> target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;trutv.com&lt;/a&gt;. He has more then 15 years of web technology experience and active open source developer and web technology enthusiast.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Sergey is an organizer of this meetup and also creator and primary developer of &lt;a href=&quot;<a href="http://www.showslow.com/&quot;" target="_blank">http://www.showslow.c...</a> target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;ShowSlow&lt;/a&gt; an open source tool that helps monitor YSlow grades, Page Speed scores and various other website performance metrics over time. He also maintains &lt;a href=&quot;<a href="http://twitter.com/perfplanet&quot;" target="_blank">http://twitter.com/pe...</a> target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;@perfplanet&lt;/a&gt; Twitter performance channel and blogs about performance on &lt;a href=&quot;<a href="http://www.showslow.com/blog/&quot;" target="_blank">http://www.showslow.c...</a> target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;ShowSlow blog&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Sponsors:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;<a href="http://www.catchpoint.com/&quot;" target="_blank">http://www.catchpoint...</a> target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Catchpoint&lt;/a&gt; is sponsoring us by providing 10% discount to our members and also books for our books section.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;<a href="http://oreilly.com/&quot;" target="_blank">http://oreilly.com/&q...</a> target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;O'Reilly&lt;/a&gt; also provides discount to members for the books and sent some books to give away as well.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Meetup.com&lt;/strong&gt; is hosting us again. And they still have &lt;strong&gt;food and beer&lt;/strong&gt;!&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Agenda:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;6:30 - Arrive to &lt;a href=&quot;<a href="http://bit.ly/flUWVM&quot;" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/flUWVM&...</a> target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;Meetup HQ&lt;/a&gt;, meet other members &lt;br /&gt;6:45 - Event starts &lt;br /&gt;7:00 - &lt;strong&gt;Cache forever&lt;/strong&gt; (Sergey) &lt;br /&gt;8:00 - Q&amp;A &lt;br /&gt;8:15 - Quick book giveaway &lt;em&gt;;)&lt;/em&gt; &lt;br /&gt;8:30 - Open Discussion, Networking&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Location:&lt;/strong&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Meetup HQ &lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;<a href="http://bit.ly/flUWVM&quot;" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/flUWVM&...</a> target=&quot;_blank&quot;&gt;632 Broadway &lt;br /&gt;3rd floor &lt;br /&gt;New York, NY 10012&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Directions on Google Maps: &lt;a href=&quot;<a href="http://bit.ly/gsZawv&quot;&gt;http://bit.ly/gsZawv&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/gsZawv&...</a> /&gt;Entrance on StreetView:&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href=&quot;<a href="http://bit.ly/fpAXCO&quot;&gt;http://bit.ly/fpAXCO&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;" target="_blank">http://bit.ly/fpAXCO&...</a>