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A lot of modern cloud architecture is concerned with the business of making sure web requests don’t reach your servers if they don’t have to. Edge caching, cont
by jameshart 4y ago
A lot of modern cloud architecture is concerned with the business of making sure web requests don’t reach your servers if they don’t have to. Edge caching, content distribution networks, browser cache handling.
If you do it right, a high proportion of your site visits leave no trace in your logs that they were ever there.
- chrismorgan 4y agoNo reason why your edge CDN can’t log requests.
- Thiez 4y agoEven if the CDN can't (for whatever reason) one could easily include a tracking pixel on every page that is marked as `Cache-Control: no-cache`, or insert a few lines of JS to do the same.
- jameshart 4y agoPresumably at some sort of additional cost, though. So then we’re into the business of weighing up whether to spend money on obtaining raw logs or purchasing the CDN’s own traffic analytics add on… or just going with a third party. This stuff isn’t just built in.