gnz00

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   by gnz00 2y ago

   I prefer to write an initial implementation, and then in the testing process figure out which interfaces simplify my tests, and then I refactor the implementation to use those interfaces. Generally, this avoids unnecessary abstraction, as t
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   by gnz00 5y ago

   Ah cool, thanks for the update. I haven't looked at their stuff in over a year. Congrats on the launch, looks really slick.
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   by gnz00 5y ago

   This was at a fairly large enterprise that utilized Fastly, and has since switched to Akamai. We had many meetings with our AM and their architects to get access to their compute engine over multiple years but never could get them to open t
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   by gnz00 5y ago

   It's been awhile but IIRC you can't inspect the body on a POST request using Varnish. Either that or any real compute in Varnish gets super gnarly. I also think Fastly has a distributed K/V for state storage that you can acce
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   by gnz00 5y ago

   Man, we had this exact use case and a similar solution designed but we weren't able to get access to Fastly's new edge compute.
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   by gnz00 6y ago

   It doesn't seem to touch on the most glaring abuse in my opinion, which is the widgets on their search page that directly competes with websites bidding for page ranking.