YYashvi Kothari3d ago · 31 min readHow to Host a Web App on Google Cloud Compute Engine (and Scale It)From a single virtual machine to a load-balanced, self-healing web application: a hands-on Google Cloud deployment guide. A website that works is not necessarily a website that's ready to scale. Imagiyashvikothari.hashnode.dev
UUsama EjazOct 20 · 7 min readEdited a Blog Post but Readers Still See the Old Version? How to Find the Cache Holding ItYou fix a typo in a published post, reload, and it's fixed. Then someone replies with a screenshot of the old version. Something between the host and that reader is serving a stored copy. It's one of 1Cusamaejaz.hashnode.dev
WWeb DeveloperOct 15 · 13 min readHow TikTok Video Downloads Work: MP4, Watermarks, HD Quality, and CDN LinksTikTok videos seem simple from a user's perspective: open the app, watch a video, and occasionally save it to your device. But behind that experience is a media delivery system involving video compresweb-tool.hashnode.dev
NnarekOct 14 · 2 min readWhy I built AuraImage, an image CDN your AI coding agent can installEvery project I ship hits the same chore eventually: users upload images, and those images need to be resized, converted, cached and served fast. The usual options are a hosted service like Cloudinary1Cnarekhakobyan.hashnode.dev
OOnlive ServerOct 14 · 10 min readDeploying a Self-Hosted Multi-Region CDN Edge Layer with Nginx and Anycast DNSIntroduction When users access an application from different countries, the distance between their location and the origin server can affect response time. This becomes especially noticeable for appli1Conliveinfotech.hashnode.dev
JJayesh SojitraOct 10 · 4 min read CloudFront Explained: When a CDN Actually HelpsCloudFront is AWS's content delivery network (CDN). It keeps copies of your content in edge locations around the world, so a user fetches it from somewhere nearby instead of from your origin server fa1Cjayesh-sojitra.hashnode.dev
AAnshulOct 6 · 20 min readI.How Cloudflare CDN Serves Requests: The Full Request LifecycleEvery time a visitor loads a page on a Cloudflare-proxied site, the same journey happens in milliseconds: DNS points them at Cloudflare instead of your server, BGP routes them to a nearby data center,1Cgeekyyanshul.hashnode.dev
Ggunjan agarwalOct 2 · 3 min readCut Image Load Time from 1.25s to 93msWhat happens when your product catalogue grows to 1,000+ images? At first, serving product images directly from S3 feels perfectly reasonable. Upload the image, store its URL, and let the browser fetc1Cgunjanagarwal.hashnode.dev
SSarmeet SinghSep 29 · 55 min readThe Copy at the Doorstep: CDNs and Edge Computing, Explained Like You're NewThe idempotency post (#6) ended with a promise: next, what happens when the copy moves to the user's doorstep. This is that post. The caching post (#1) taught you to keep a copy close so you don't wal1Cblueprintsofscale.hashnode.dev
DDharmesh JoshiSep 25 · 5 min readStreaming Video Behind a Signed-Cookie CDN: Lessons from a Real MigrationWe had a video player in an eLearning platform that was serving video directly from origin, with a signed URL generated per request. It worked, but it didn't scale well and it wasn't resilient to some2Cdharmeshjoshi.hashnode.dev
