Re:Faster arXiv with Fastly
by erulabs on Thursday December 21, 2023 @12:47PM
(#38723853)
Good promo for Fastly! Fastly is a great company - effectively they're Varnish-as-a-Service, which is really a non-trivial SaaS. I hope this brings in some business for them.
Re:Faster arXiv with Fastly
by karmakaze on Thursday December 21, 2023 @01:53PM
(#38724992)
I've used both and wish Fastly had a mode where a higher level specification could be used for most/simple cases. It's been quite a while since I've used it so may be a capability it has since added.
Re:Faster arXiv with Fastly
by no_wizard on Thursday December 21, 2023 @02:26PM
(#38725484)
I feel like Cloudflare is becoming more of a cloud computing platform with a focus on global "instant" delivery of services than a CDN company.
Of course, they're also a really competent CDN company, but they're really leveraging all their experience in that domain to bolster up their compute offerings.
Re:Faster arXiv with Fastly
by boiler_up800 on Thursday December 21, 2023 @01:09PM
(#38724192)
Good job Fastly. I would love to see metrics on bandwidth consumed from Arxiv. I always wonder how it and services like package repositories are able to provide their downloads for free.
Re:Faster arXiv with Fastly
by anildash on Thursday December 21, 2023 @01:11PM
(#38724228)
That's a cool idea! Arxiv is a member of our Fast Forward program at Fastly, which helps a lot of open source/open web projects, and we've enabled other projects to share that kind of data in the past, so maybe we can figure out how to help them do that too. (One example is Kubernetes; you can see their live request data on our developer site. https://developer.fastly.com/ )
Re:Faster arXiv with Fastly
by progbits on Thursday December 21, 2023 @03:02PM
(#38726041)
Love how the bandwidth spikes ~10x from HH:59 to HH:00. Looks like people still write crons with manually set trigger times that align on the hour, rather than randomly spreading them out.
Fastly == Linux (ability to changes lots of things to tailor to your exact needs)
Cloudflare == macOS (prepackaged to work for most general users, limited config)
Of course, they're also a really competent CDN company, but they're really leveraging all their experience in that domain to bolster up their compute offerings.
Where Cloud 1.0 is laregly just a "lift/shift" of OnPrem to Cloud.
Cloud 2.0 is hosting on the Edge and infrastructure built completely different than anything legacy from an OnPrem (or lift/shift) mindset.