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> We talked about this during the outage before but any API requests related to account information should not be going through a cacheable CDN. That is simply
by notyourday 5y ago
> We talked about this during the outage before but any API requests related to account information should not be going through a cacheable CDN.
That is simply not correct.
The entire reason why Fastly is so popular is because it lets you cache the API using cache-bust on write. Between the request collapsing, shielding, and a near immediate cache invalidation caching API allows one to accept enormous spikes of traffic that normally would bring down the origins.