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The common solution is to spin up a dedicated DNS hostname called something like "preview.www.netflix.com" and turn off all caching when users go via that path.
by jiggawatts 1y ago
The common solution is to spin up a dedicated DNS hostname called something like "preview.www.netflix.com" and turn off all caching when users go via that path. Editors and reviewers use that, and that's... it. Solved!
- yandie 1y agoBut I need to build a beautiful system with global scale!! They inflated the problem of “make content preview faster” for a small number of users to “make a fast global cache system”. That’s promotion material for you
- sandeepkd 1y agoA solution as simple as this is not easy to miss, on other side, to be fair its hard to know what other considerations were involved in the review and design process. Some one had to present a reasonable rationale to go in a certain direction.
- jiggawatts 1y ago> what other considerations were involved "DNS domains are managed by another team."