What is meta? ×  I've always been impressed with StackOverflow's
cache: it seems to strike a perfect balance between snappiness
and sensibility.  Which of the half-dozen* cache invalidation
strategies promoted by Microsoft does StackOverflow use? I
personally would love to hear a 2-3 sentence summary from a
member of the team, and I imagine it would be instructive to a
lot of people building sites on the MSFT stack.  *Okay, maybe I
exaggerate.  share|improve this question This question may be
relevant to the question here:
meta.stackexchange.com/questions/110320/… –  Norman H Dec 16 '11
at 17:15  2 Answers 2  up vote 10 down vote accepted  One thing
we do    • Key: the hash of the SQL, combined with a string name
• Value: the List<int> of ID numbers returned by the search
There's your key-value pair, and that is placed in
HttpRuntime.Cache  Views take those list of IDs and hydrate the
rest of the row / table values depending on what page they are
on, etc.  We do both sliding cache (re-validated every time