Netlify: Durable cache on Netlify

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I need to remember this interesting technique so let me write a blog post.

I read this on Jason Lengstorf’s blog.

Basically we can use Netlify’s Durable Caching to cache responses of Netlify’s serverless functions, shared across all edge nodes.

Here’s the documentation about them on Netlify, and a blog post on how to use them within Astro.

Lessons in this unit:

0: Introduction
1: Create a Netlify account
2: Deploy to Netlify
3: A tutorial to host your Static Site on Netlify
4: Auto trigger deploys on Netlify
5: Netlify Lambda Functions Tutorial
6: How to use environment variables in Netlify functions
7: How to use npm packages in Netlify Functions
8: How to access query parameters in Netlify functions
9: How to test Netlify Functions locally
10: How to use Netlify Edge Functions
11: How to set up "cloud cron jobs" using Netlify Scheduled Functions
12: How I fixed the trailing slash in Netlify rewrites
13: ▶︎ Durable cache on Netlify
14: How to return HTML from a Netlify function
15: How to use ES modules in Netlify functions
16: How to trigger a Netlify-Vercel-Cloudflare Pages redeploy using a link