A
system and method for providing an actively invalidated
client-side network resource cache are disclosed. A particular embodiment includes: a
client configured to request, for a
client application, data associated with an identifier from a
server; the
server configured to provide the data associated with the identifier, the data being subject to subsequent change, the
server being further configured to establish a
queue associated with the identifier at a scalable message queuing
system, the scalable message queuing
system including a plurality of gateway nodes configured to receive connections from client systems over a network, a plurality of
queue nodes containing subscription information about
queue subscribers, and a consistent
hash table mapping a queue identifier requested on a gateway node to a corresponding queue node for the requested queue identifier; the client being further configured to subscribe to the queue at the scalable message queuing system to receive invalidation information associated with the data; the server being further configured to
signal the queue of an invalidation event associated with the data; the scalable message queuing system being configured to convey information indicative of the invalidation event to the client; and the client being further configured to re-request the data associated with the identifier from the server upon
receipt of the information indicative of the invalidation event from the scalable message queuing system.