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Modi Model: The Pathani kurta is likely to be in Narendra Modi's wardrobe
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JSJ 323: "Building a JavaScript platform that gives you the power to build your own CDN" with Kurt Mackey
Panel:
- Charles Max Wood
- AJ ONeal
Special Guests: Kurt Mackey
In this episode, the JavaScript Jabber panel talks to Kurt Mackey about Fly.io. At Fly.io, they are "building a JavaScript platform that gives you the power to build your own CDN." They talk about how Fly.io came to fruition, how CDN caching works, and what happens when you deploy a Fly app. They also touch on resizing images with Fly, how you actually build JavaScript platforms using Fly, and more!
In particular, we dive pretty deep on:
- Fly.io
- Building a programmable CDN
- High level overview of Fly.io
- How did this project come together?
- CDNs didn’t work with dynamic applications
- Has been working on this since 2008
- Extend application logic to the “edge”
- Putting burden of JavaScript “nastiest” onto the web server
- Fly is the proxy layer
- Getting things closer to visitors and users
- CDN caching
- Cache APIs
- Writing logic to improve your lighthouse score
- Have you built in resizing images into Fly?
- Managing assets closer to the user
- Can you modify your own JavaScript files?
- What happens when you deploy a Fly app
- Having more application logic
- DOM within the proxy
- Ghost
- React and Gatsby
- Intelligently loading client JavaScript
- How do you build the JavaScript platform?
- And much, much more!
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Inequality and uncertainty: current challenges for cities / Marta Smagacz-Poziemska, M. Victoria Gómez, Patrícia Pereira, Laura Guarino, Sebastian Kurtenbach, Juan José Villalón, editors
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Sustainable approaches to controlling plant pathogenic bacteria / edited by Velu RajeshKannan, Kubilay Kurtulus Bastas
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Laika's window: the legacy of a Soviet space dog / Kurt Caswell
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The accidental practitioner : principles of rational emotive behavior therapy in the works of Kurt Vonnegut
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Serving the servant: remembering Kurt Cobain / Danny Goldberg
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Back Stories with Kurt Elster
In this episode of Back Stories, Keir chats with Kurt Elster — founder of ecommerce agency Ethercycle, host of the popular Ecommerce Hacks Weekly video series, author of Ecommerce Bootcamp, and the host of The Unofficial Shopify Podcast.
Topics include the benefits of the “peacock” jacket, naming your company, specialisation, automating inbound leads, productised consulting, and much more.
Kurt Online
- Kurt’s personal web site
- Kurt on Twitter
- “Ecommerce Bootcamp” — Kurt’s book
- The Unofficial Shopify Podcast — Kurt’s podcast
- Ethercycle — Kurt’s company
- Ecommerce Hacks Weekly — Kurt’s newsletter
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