JSJ 323: "Building a JavaScript platform that gives you the power to build your own CDN" with Kurt Mackey
JavaScript Jabber - A podcast by Charles M Wood - Tuesdays
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- 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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