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What it does?

• speed up dynamic pages
• reduce load on backend systems dozen times
• increase application's resilience

Features

• Advanced HTTP response caching for dynamic pages.
• Client type specific caching. Different cache behaviour for users and bots.
• Background cache refresh.
• Custom fallbacks when origin is unavailable or returns 5XX error.
• Server-side includes. Frontcache resolves server-side includes what allows to cache parts of HTML page.
• Asynchronous origin calls / Asynchronous includes.

How it works

Frontcache is written in Java and works

• as Servlet filter for Java based websites
• as standalone application what makes it friendly to websites written in any language

Frontcache Console

Frontcache has web based user friendly console to show real-time statistics and config parameters.

Sub-projects

frontcache-core - core implementation, distribution for 'Servlet filter' mode.

frontcache-server - web wrapper for standalone web application (edge) mode.

frontcache-agent - library for cache invalidation from Web App side.

frontcache-console - UI for server/cluster configuration and realtime statistics.

frontcache-tests - integration tests.