Looks like Whitenoise can gzip your assets, add a hash to the filename, serve them with far-future headers, and then selectively serve the gzipped version based

Looks like Whitenoise can gzip your assets, add a hash to the filename, serve them with far-future headers, and then selectively serve the gzipped version based on Accept-Encoding headers. Put that behind Cloudflare and your origin server is only hit when an edge location is warming its cache. Sounds Hickey-tier simple to me, especially compared to your advice of "just use and configure Nginx".