Faster arXiv with Fastly

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.

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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/ )

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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.

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