Show HN: Tumbless, a Tumblr-like blogging platform running on Amazon S3

Re:Show HN: Tumbless, a Tumblr-like blogging platform runnin... by akeck on Monday March 21, 2016 @01:23PM (#11329820)

Amazon S3 transfer costs can be problematic, though. Personally, I would pair a tool like this with a CloudFront configuration. If you configure CloudFront to expire objects after 24 hours, using a A/B release model for an S3-backed site works pretty well.

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Re:Show HN: Tumbless, a Tumblr-like blogging platform runnin... by hawkice on Monday March 21, 2016 @03:10PM (#11330884)

I use the --cf-invalidate flag(s) with s3cmd -- but for something with the usage patterns of tumblr, might be better to use a * invalidation so you don't have to pay too much for them. 24 hour invalidation would be confusing for tumblr-type things. I see the article posted today but the homepage doesn't have it? Very confusing.

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Re:Show HN: Tumbless, a Tumblr-like blogging platform runnin... by akeck on Tuesday March 22, 2016 @02:19PM (#11338659)

My understanding, via limited testing, (might be wrong) of CloudFront's content behavior is that new things show up pretty quickly (hour?). Changed things would be subject to the expiration time limit. So, edits of old posts won't go live until the original objects expire - unless you invalidate the cache for them.

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