🎧 Kaizen 13 - Should we build a CDN? - Jan. 12, 2024

[gerhard]

🎧 This is now available as changelog.com/friends/26

See all improvements in this 🐙 GitHub repository: Kaizen 12 ... 13

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This contains all things related to the next Kaizen episode.

Share your thoughts via comments below:

• Is there something in changelog.com that you, our dear listener, would like us to tackle?
• Is there something that you would like to help out with?
• Anything that we - @adamstac @jerodsanto - want to improve?

A rough timeline of what to expect (red line is today):

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    title 🎧 Kaizen 13 timeline
    dateFormat  YYYY-MM-DD
    axisFormat %b %e, %Y

    section CONTRIBUTE
    💻 ALL CONTRIBUTIONS WELCOME 👕 :2023-10-21, 76d

    section RECORD

    🎙 Record :milestone, 2024-01-05
    ✂️ Edit :2024-01-05, 7d
    🚀 SHIP IT! :milestone, 2024-01-12

    section NEXT
    Kick-off Kaizen 14 :2024-01-12, 7d

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What changed? Kaizen.12 ... Kaizen.13

• IPv4-only S3 endpoint is used for post pictures #419
• Bugs in negated in expressions #483
• Add auth to Fastly purge requests
• Changelog Beats
• Remove NotionUpdater
• @changelog on TikTok
• Bump deps to latest #490
  • flyctl 0.1.134 👈 this started it - dagger_on_fly workflow was failing
  • Ubuntu 22.04 LTS (Jammy Jellyfish) 2023-10-04
  • Elixir 1.14.5
    • 🗣 Upgrade Elixir to v1.15 #493
  • Golang 1.20.12
  • Node.js 20.10.0 (from 18)
  • Erlang 26.2 (from 25)
• Only install dev & test deps when contributing #495
• Send all app traces to Honeycomb #496
• Migrate Postgres to Neon.tech #492
  • includes 1Password Service Account integration
  • upgrades Postgres from 15.3 to 16.1
• Switch to uploading static assets during deploy #500

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What else is coming up?

• CDN cache misses increased 7x after Oct. 8, 2023 #486
• Reduce 404s
• Experiment with middleware.io
• Elixir / Phoenix releases
• Clean-up
  • multiple arguments to rm -fr
  • upload legacy assets
  • wp-content redirect
  • Why do we need to start the app - and therefore require the DB - to upload static assets?
• Daggerize action-slack-notify

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This is a follow-up to

• 🎧 Kaizen 12 - Slightly more instant - Oct. 13, 2023 #480
• 🎧 Kaizen 11 - S3 R2 B2 D2 - Aug. 11, 2023 #469
• 🎧 Kaizen 10 - The best pipeline ever™️ - Jun. 2, 2023 #452

[ajhalili2006]

Chiming in regarding Changelog Beats: Do you consider get your Spotify artist page verified (by claiming it)?¹ Hopefully someone will get some of the beats in next year's Wrapped (just joking, but 🤞).

Footnotes

1. YouTube might be a different beast in terms of Official Aritst channels verification process. ↩

[jerodsanto]

Interesting idea. What does verification accomplish, @ajhalili2006?

[AbdhilahiRWabwire]

This may help with shopping for or determining the complexity of a Content Delivery Network:

Apache Traffic Control is an Open Source implementation of a Content Delivery Network.

• https://github.com/apache/trafficcontrol

These tools may help with building a Content Delivery Network:

Traefik (pronounced traffic) is a modern HTTP reverse proxy and load balancer.

• https://github.com/traefik/traefik

Envoy Proxy.

• https://github.com/envoyproxy/envoy

Consul is a Service Mesh.

• https://github.com/hashicorp/consul

Istio is a Service Mesh.

• https://github.com/istio/istio

This may help with Cache Misses:

Ristretto is a fast, concurrent cache library built with a focus on performance and correctness.

• https://github.com/dgraph-io/ristretto

Related to: Fastly Content Delivery Network && Cache Misses Issues

[gerhard]

That's a good shout-out! Will check it out, thank you 👍