On 23 September 2026, our Technical Director and founder Nick Allen presented at the Sitecore User Group France virtual event, an online evening of Sitecore sessions.
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 covered:
- Cache Components fundamentals:
'use cache',cacheLife()and cache tags, and what the next visitor sees after a publish. - The Content SDK template: what it caches and tags out of the box, and how publishing mode changes what the Experience Edge webhook can tell it.
- Two live demos: route invalidation, then route-only against route-and-datasource tagging, side by side.
- Choosing a strategy: event-driven, coarse, time-driven or hybrid invalidation, and why most production applications end up running more than one.
For the detail in written form, with the code and the two Content SDK 2.4.0 bugs, read Caching Sitecore with Next.js Cache Components.
The session is available to watch in full:
Watch the recording on YouTube →
Thank you to SUGFRANCE for hosting us, to the other speakers, and to everyone who joined and asked questions.
