Mastering Symfony

ESI for selective caching

Here is the definition of ESI according to Wikipedia:

	"Edge Side Includes or ESI is a small markup language for edge level dynamic web content assembly. The purpose of ESI is to tackle the problem of web infrastructure scaling. Dynamic content creates a problem for caching systems. To overcome this problem a group of companies developed the ESI specification and submitted it to the W3C for approval."
	--Wikipedia

In simple words, we can use ESI to define independent caching rules for any section of each page. Again, Symfony comes with out-of-the-box support for the ESI feature. We don't need to install anything to use ESI in our project. All we need to do is uncomment the following line in config.yml:

# app/config/config.yml ...