Introducing http_cache, a BEAM-native standard-compliant HTTP caching library

One year ago I released the http_cache Erlang library along with 2 Elixir libraries (plug_http_cache and tesla_http_cache) that make use of it. When I started writing these libs, I thought it would take a few weeks of work to have them completed. HTTP caching is harder than I though, and it took way longer. Why, then, bothering writing them when other HTTP caching systems already exist? In this blog post, I intend to explain my motivation and show what features they support.…