Posts Tagged ‘cdn’

How to setup Amazon Cloudfront ( learning with experimentation )

I have some experience with Akamai’s WAA (Web applications archive) service, which I’ve been using in my professional capacity for a few years now. And I’ve have been curious about how  cloudfront compares with it. Until a few weeks ago, Cloudfront didn’t have a key feature which I think was critical for it to win [...]

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ESI: Edge Side Includes

Web page caching gets tricky once personalization is involved. Lets take twitter public_timeline for example which seems to be perfect for caching. Unfortunately when a user is logged in, it also shows the user’s information. Caching that particular page in its entirety, on the web server, in such scenarios, may not be an option. Another [...]

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