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Show HN: A CDN for API Calls
- thomasfromcdnjs 12y agoNot sure why this is getting up-voted, it is incomplete and does't do anything?
- dedalus 12y agoI cannot be responsible for upvoting,but can you help me understand what more is needed to make it complete Also if you have an API to accelerate, please let know and we shall be happy to accelerate it. (to prove that it does something, namely, cut your API response time in half)
- sv123 12y agoWhy not use any other CDN for API calls?
- dedalus 12y agoOut of the box, no CDN has a purpose built product to address this. The closest I have seen addressing the problem is that from Varnish : https://www.varnish-software.com/product/varnish-api-acceleration https://www.varnish-software.com/product/varnish-api-acceler... However most CDNs will try to cache it but not provide acceleration for dynamic ones. In my case you are always guarateed 1 round trip between pronto nodes for dynamic traffic and cache whatever we can On top of it, I am doing dedpulication/compression of JSON Finally a CDN bills on bytes thus making it less profitable for them whereas we bill on number of requests Hope that clarifies why a CDN doesnt cut it for APIs
- youngtaff 12y agoSorry, don't get why I wouldn't just use a CDN like Akamai, or Fastly or another to do this - many of them have features that will 'speed up' APIs
- dedalus 12y agoSee above. API calls have a per use cache rather than one cached object to serve to many thus decreasing the cache hit ratio which makes it inconvenient for any CDN to make money Also existing CDNs think this market is too small for them to invest. The difference is that of a purpose built platform versus a generic one