The files are indeed cached by CF:
# curl -v https://files.tableplus.com/windows/5.9.2/TablePlusSetup.exec > /dev/null
...
< cache-control: max-age=691200
< cf-cache-status: HIT
< age: 2980Or is that only with the free tier?
It’s encouraging or reminding people that this style of architecture, which was once prevalent, is still an option and is still rather legit.
Or, that’s how I read it however I also am biased as I prefer this method of development too. I think what’s missing in the article is, who are they and who is the audience. As in, some acknowledge that most things are not ever going to see mass scale usage and don’t need to be developed to the specs of a faang
I do get that the volume of data and requests they are handling hardly constitutes the claim of ddos.
Using a CDN has been common practice for many years at companies big and small. Many big CDNs even have free tiers.
> Like how can claim it’s self congratulatory when huge companies regularly can’t do this?
You don’t need a FAANG company with thousands of developers to use a CDN. You can sign up for Cloudflare today and have your files distributed by CDN with some simple changes. You could have it done by end of day.
For example, there's no reasonable world where that 200 MB blob is not cached and served over CDN. I can't imagine someone would be so proud that their application server isn't reading 200 MB from disk and copying those bytes to the client on every download; it's just so obviously poor design.