Build a CDN in about 5 hours

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Varnish

We have choices. We could use Varnish (scripting! Edge side includes! PHK blog posts!). We could use Apache Traffic Server (being the only new team this year to use ATS!). Or we could use NGINX (we're already running it!). The only certainty is that you'll come to hate whichever one you pick. Try them all and pick the one you hate the least.

#Key-Value Database #Proxy Server #Proxy 16 social mentions

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updown.io

That's server failure, and it's easy to spot. Internet burps are harder to detect. You'll need to run external health checks, from multiple locations. It's easy to get basic, multi-perspective monitoring – we use Datadog and updown.io, and we're building out our own half-built home grown service. You're not asking for much more than what cURL will tell you. Again: the thing you're super wary about in a CDN is a region getting slow, not falling off the Internet completely.

#Website Monitoring #Monitoring Tools #Uptime Monitoring 8 social mentions

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Apache Traffic Server

We have choices. We could use Varnish (scripting! Edge side includes! PHK blog posts!). We could use Apache Traffic Server (being the only new team this year to use ATS!). Or we could use NGINX (we're already running it!). The only certainty is that you'll come to hate whichever one you pick. Try them all and pick the one you hate the least.

#Proxy Server #Proxy #DevOps Tools 5 social mentions

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Fly.io

Anycast is more difficult. We have more to say about this — but not here. In the meantime, you can use us, and deploy an app with an Anycast address in about 2 minutes. This is bias. But also: true.

#Cloud Computing #Developer Tools #Cloud Hosting 438 social mentions