Let's build a CDN - Part 1

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This started as a conversation between James A Rosen & Gerhard in August 2023. Several months later, it evolved into a few epic pairing sessions captured in these GitHub threads:
  1. thechangelog#480 (reply in thread)
  2. thechangelog#486
The last pairing session eventually lead to 🎧 Kaizen! Should we build a CDN? This is the follow-up to that. How far did we get in 1 hour?

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  • (00:00) - Intro
  • (02:08) - The 5-hour CDN
  • (03:44) - Varnish container image
  • (05:00) - Varnish container image command
  • (06:31) - Local-friendly Varnish container image
  • (06:44) - Varnish command-line options
  • (08:30) - Varnish parameters
  • (09:45) - Experimenting with Varnish locally
  • (12:36) - Varnish purging
  • (15:22) - Backend fetch failed
  • (16:20) - Varnish debug mode & logs
  • (17:29) - Why can't we query the backend?
  • (21:08) - Why is the backend sick?
  • (22:49) - That's the problem!
Let's build a CDN - Part 1
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