Our Technical Director and founder Nick Allen is presenting at the Sitecore User Group France virtual event on Wednesday 23 September 2026, starting at 18:30 CEST. The event is online, and registration is open on the user group’s site.
Our session
Caching Sitecore: a deep dive into Next.js Cache Components
Next.js 16 changes the primary unit of caching from the route to composable data and rendering boundaries. That suits Sitecore, where a page is already a composition of layout, placeholders, components, data sources and referenced content. Finer-grained caching also asks more of the team building it: every cache needs a boundary, a lifetime, and a dependable event that says it has gone stale.
The session moves from the familiar SSG, ISR and on-demand revalidation model into 'use cache', cacheLife(), cache profiles and cache tags. It then looks at the Content SDK’s own Cache Components implementation, what it gives you, and where real applications run past it: component data sources, shared referenced content, query-based APIs whose results include items that did not exist when the entry was cached, large publishes split across webhook payloads.
The practical conclusion is that different dependencies need different strategies. Event-driven invalidation is precise where a change event carries enough meaning to reconstruct the tags. Bounded staleness through cacheLife() covers the cases where it does not. Most production applications end up running both.
The rest of the line-up
Three other sessions are on the agenda:
- From Copilot to Colleague: Running Enterprise Coding Agents on Our Sitecore Team — Anna Bründel and Manuel Janzen
- Sitecore Agentic Studio – In and Out — Arvind Gehlot
- Beyond Packages: Moving Content Between Sitecore Environments, the API Way — Ghanendra Singh
Full details and registration are on the event page:
Register for the Sitecore User Group France virtual event →
If you build Sitecore front ends on JSS or the Content SDK and you are weighing up how much of your caching to make event-driven, come and bring your questions. Thank you to SUGFRANCE for hosting us.
