Why this matters
Prevents duplicate work and race conditions under concurrency.
Protect one-time initializations with Mutex or atomic operations (computeIfAbsent/compareAndSet).
Prevents duplicate work and race conditions under concurrency.
Side-by-side examples engineers can pattern-match during review.
if (cache[key] == null) { cache[key] = build() }val v = cache.computeIfAbsent(key) { build() }if (x == null) x = init()mutex.withLock { x ?: init().also { x = it } }From the same buckets as this rule.
All static JS/CSS/font/image files MUST use content-hashed filenames (e.g., app.9c1a7b.js) and be served with "Cache-Control: public, max-age=31536000, immutable". HTML and other non-fingerprinted documents MUST be served with "Cache-Control: no-cache" (or equivalent) to enable conditional revalidation.
Serve text-based assets (JS, CSS, JSON, SVG) with Brotli (br) when the client sends "Accept-Encoding: br" and fallback to gzip. Always set "Vary: Accept-Encoding" and do NOT compress already-compressed formats (e.g., .png, .jpg, .woff2).