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Sure it's obsolete, who needs databases and live, chancing data. All we need is a static pages. Besides who needs to build his own infrastructure, it's 2012 rig

• jeffbarr 14y ago
  CloudFront can do a lot more than simply serve up static data.
• peterbe 14y ago
  Is this just an odd joke? Of course you need a database. If you need to build a toaster, you don't need to build an iron smelting plant. Certain things other folks are better at taking care of.
  • qatalo 14y ago
    I am going to make a codecademy course on detecting sarcasm just for you :)
  • devmach 14y ago
    > Is this just an odd joke? Of course you need a database. Looks like we need a sarcasm alert on HN, like spoiler alerts :)
• mnutt 14y ago
  This misses his point that originally he had app <-> nginx <-> user, then he added cloudfront so he had app <-> nginx <-> cloudfront <-> user. At that point is nginx really serving much purpose? I think for the average use case the answer is no, nginx doesn't buy you much. However nginx is a lot more flexible than cloudfront, so if you have more complicated caching rules and such nginx is a perfect fit.
  • devmach 14y ago
    It's only an average use case if you're blogger and use disqus for comments. For most dynamic web applications we need more flexible caching methods and we need to able to change/update cached part on our side. Don't get me wrong : cloudfront is a cool tech and obviously useful too but a bold claim like " we don't need nginx ( or any performance oriented web server ) because we have cloudfront " is just the very wrong way of thinking.