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A technique used when serving a cacheable static asset in order to force
a client to query the new version of the asset. See :ref:`cache_busting`
for more information.
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+ view deriver
+ A view deriver is a composable component of the view pipeline which is
+ used to create a :term:`view callable`. A view deriver is a callable
+ implementing the :class:`pyramid.interfaces.IViewDeriver` interface.
+ Examples of built-in derivers including view mapper, the permission
+ checker, and applying a renderer to a dictionary returned from the view.