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Re:Rethinking caching in web apps by gfodor on Monday October 01, 2012 @10:18PM (#4600356)
Somehow I think adding yet another layer to software that ultimately consumes some inputs and spits out some text is a little extreme. Hopefully we can figure out a solution that doesn't require it.
Re:Rethinking caching in web apps by jessedhillon on Tuesday October 02, 2012 @04:01AM (#4600993)
Two thoughts:

1) Which software does something other than merely operating on given inputs and deterministically generating text, graphics, or more generally, colored squares? I think that description fully characterizes all non-hardware-driving code.

2) Web apps do more than generate text. They modify stored data in domain-specific ways, and ultimately that data is what's important -- it's everything from opinions to orders.