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I read the first six paragraphs and still really had no idea what this is talking about. Can anyone help me understand?

blacha 5y ago
Looks to be a service to remove the HTTP referer header when linking to other sites. Say your on example.com and click a a link to foo.com the browser will send the http header `Referer: example.com` in the HTTP get to foo.com, this means foo.com can then track how you came to their site.
- programmer_dude 5y ago
  LOL, why do you need an "accelerator" for this?
  - mcintyre1994 5y ago
    It's about accelerating the networking performance from the user to a server doing the work. You don't need to do it but it's always going to be a limit on performance if you don't, no matter how fast you make the application server itself.
  - orf 5y ago
    It’s explained in detail in the article.
- gadders 5y ago
  The only place I've even seen this is torrent sites linking to IMDB. Does it have a legitimate use?
  - homero 5y ago
    Links in web email clients
yardstick 5y ago
I guess the blog is using referrer stripping as an example to demo/play with AWS global accelerator. If it was me, I would set referrer-policy: origin (or no-referrer) header[1] and avoid all the overhead. Supported on all current browsers[2], and no additional costs or code to worry about. Also, does it seem a bit insecure to anyone else to outsource referrer stripping services if your goal is to secure the content of the referrer from third parties? How well do you trust the middlemen in this case? 1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Referrer-Policy https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re... 2. https://caniuse.com/referrer-policy https://caniuse.com/referrer-policy
gnfargbl 5y ago
The author likes AWS Global Accelerator. The author likes GA mainly because it uses BGP anycast, which means that the packets drop into AWS' network at the closest AWS point-of-presence, instead of traversing the internet. The author's experience is that this feature of GA, when combined with always-on VMs that do not need to cold start, provides him low latency for a particular service he is running. The author also mentions Cloudflare and Google App Engine, but rejects these because on those services he chose to use the lambda-like compute functionality and wasn't prepared for the cold starts. He doesn't appear to have tried using Lambda on AWS, or dedicated VMs with Google. Thus it is a slightly apples-to-oranges comparison.
- lifeofguenter 5y ago
  Lambda@Edge unfortunately does not support provisioned concurrency, so you are bound to cold-starts as well (I tried, measured, and reverted before even going live with it).
- ignoramous 5y ago
  I opened a request on GitHub that Global Accelerator support AWS AppRunner (persistent containers in Fargate VMs with HTTP/S gateway) as an endpoint. That'd cover all of OP's usecases (and the one that I also have): https://github.com/aws/apprunner-roadmap/issues/83 https://github.com/aws/apprunner-roadmap/issues/83

Looks to be a service to remove the HTTP referer header when linking to other sites. Say your on example.com and click a a link to foo.com the browser will send the http header `Referer: example.com` in the HTTP get to foo.com, this means foo.com can then track how you came to their site.

programmer_dude 5y ago
LOL, why do you need an "accelerator" for this?
- mcintyre1994 5y ago
  It's about accelerating the networking performance from the user to a server doing the work. You don't need to do it but it's always going to be a limit on performance if you don't, no matter how fast you make the application server itself.
- orf 5y ago
  It’s explained in detail in the article.
gadders 5y ago
The only place I've even seen this is torrent sites linking to IMDB. Does it have a legitimate use?
- homero 5y ago
  Links in web email clients

yardstick 5y ago

I guess the blog is using referrer stripping as an example to demo/play with AWS global accelerator. If it was me, I would set referrer-policy: origin (or no-referrer) header[1] and avoid all the overhead. Supported on all current browsers[2], and no additional costs or code to worry about. Also, does it seem a bit insecure to anyone else to outsource referrer stripping services if your goal is to secure the content of the referrer from third parties? How well do you trust the middlemen in this case? 1. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Referrer-Policy https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re... 2. https://caniuse.com/referrer-policy https://caniuse.com/referrer-policy

gnfargbl 5y ago

The author likes AWS Global Accelerator. The author likes GA mainly because it uses BGP anycast, which means that the packets drop into AWS' network at the closest AWS point-of-presence, instead of traversing the internet. The author's experience is that this feature of GA, when combined with always-on VMs that do not need to cold start, provides him low latency for a particular service he is running. The author also mentions Cloudflare and Google App Engine, but rejects these because on those services he chose to use the lambda-like compute functionality and wasn't prepared for the cold starts. He doesn't appear to have tried using Lambda on AWS, or dedicated VMs with Google. Thus it is a slightly apples-to-oranges comparison.

lifeofguenter 5y ago
Lambda@Edge unfortunately does not support provisioned concurrency, so you are bound to cold-starts as well (I tried, measured, and reverted before even going live with it).
ignoramous 5y ago
I opened a request on GitHub that Global Accelerator support AWS AppRunner (persistent containers in Fargate VMs with HTTP/S gateway) as an endpoint. That'd cover all of OP's usecases (and the one that I also have): https://github.com/aws/apprunner-roadmap/issues/83 https://github.com/aws/apprunner-roadmap/issues/83