JSJ 323: "Building a JavaScript platform that gives you the power to build your own CDN" with Kurt Mackey

Published: July 26, 2018, 7:50 p.m.

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  • Charles Max Wood
  • AJ ONeal
Special Guests: Kurt MackeyIn 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\u2019t work with dynamic applications
  • Has been working on this since 2008
  • Extend application logic to the \u201cedge\u201d
  • Putting burden of JavaScript \u201cnastiest\u201d 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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