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Changing frontend cache

Our architecture consists of a front-end cache that most read only users obtain their data from directly. The front-end cache sits in front of a farm of webservers that serve pages written in PHP. We need to be able to detect certain conditions at the front-end cache level and pass those values through to the back-end via HTTP headers. For example we would like to manually tag the carrier network based on the IP address. So, for incoming traffic if the user is say coming from an IP address in the range of “41.202.192.0”/19 we would tag them as being a Orange Cameroon user by setting the appropriate HTTP request header, e.g., X-Carrier = “Orange Cameroon”.

How do these technologies go together?

Ruby on Rails Twitter Bootstrap Html5Boilerplate Backbone.JS or Knockout.JS I sort of understand what each one is individually, but my understanding isn’t strong enough to understand whether some of them sort of overlap in functionality and whether any subset of that list contains items you wouldn’t use together because they play similar roles. I’m fairly […]