I’ve written and used a lot of the Azure Storage service to work with applications that I’ve built that run in the cloud. It’s easy enough to use, just throw some files in there and they can be served internally to other applications or you can let the public access them remotely.
Something that always struck me about the public access to the service was that the content was never cached, never compressed, and in general felt like a simple web server delivering content without some of those features that we REALLY like about the modern web. Adding cache headers and compressing the content will reduce the number of queries to the server and the bandwidth needed to deliver the content when it is requested.
In this post, I’m going to show you how I activated caching and compression for an Azure Storage blob cache that I wanted to use with my web application KlipTok.
