#3249 [Docs] Fix up caching docs as per user feedback
Issue created by
ppiegaze
Description
In
this Slack thread we find the following advice (we should act on it):
Niels Bantilan
@Sidharth (Sid)
yes our
flyte.org website revamp (coming soon!) should feature caching a lot more prominently. Out of curiosity, do you find the
current docs on caching clear and understandable?
Sidharth(Sid)
18 hours ago
I feel it has everything a person needs to understand Caching, but it needs a thorough read, maybe even a few times for a complete new comer to workflow tools.
Also, terms related to caching such as "task Signature" could be simpler in my opinion. For example "Any changes to task Function".
Prefect V1 docs for caching -
https://docs-v1.prefect.io/core/concepts/persistence.html#output-caching-based-on-a-file-target
Its pretty old, but has similar concepts explained in simple sentences.
Im just sharing it so that I can show you what kind of understanding fits a crowd who are new to these tools. But I do wish the above prefect page to be more technical. Closer to flyte's way of explaining.
Basically a middle ground will be nice.
Also in Flyte current stable docs, I would wish for more details on "local cache storage" and "remote cache storage". The above prefect v1 doc gives some insight to it.
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