Faster arXiv with Fastly

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.

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Re:Faster arXiv with Fastly by alberth on Thursday December 21, 2023 @01:20PM (#38724379)

I read an analogy once and its that:

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)

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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.

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Re:Faster arXiv with Fastly by hermanradtke on Thursday December 21, 2023 @04:12PM (#38727013)

They have a whole UI that avoids any sort of VCL.

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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.

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Re:Faster arXiv with Fastly by alberth on Thursday December 21, 2023 @02:54PM (#38725900)

Cloudflare wants to be the defacto "Cloud 2.0" company (where AWS is "Cloud 1.0").

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.

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