Kaizen! Should we build a CDN? (Friends)

The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source

It’s our 13th Kaizen episode! We’re back from KubeCon, we’re making goals for the year, we’re migrating to Neon & we’re weighing the pros/cons of building our own custom CDN.

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Featuring:

• Gerhard Lazu – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• 📄 Kaizen 13
• Migrate Postgres to Neon.tech by gerhard · Pull Request #492
• CDN cache misses increased 7x · Issue #486
• 🎥 TGI RabbitMQ
• Neon.tech
• Supabase Postgres · Fly Docs
• Vercel Postgres
• KeyCDN - Content delivery made easy

Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

فصل ها

1. Let's talk! (00:00:00)

2. New year, new Kaizen (00:00:38)

3. One last KubeCon "cheers!" (00:00:52)

4. Versioning by the year (00:02:17)

5. Let's set some goals (00:06:23)

6. Goal setting: Gerhard (00:07:14)

7. Goal setting: Adam (00:10:27)

8. On Changelog's DNA (00:15:23)

9. Goal setting: Jerod (00:18:54)

10. Sponsor: Socket (00:20:32)

https://socket.dev/?utm_source=changelog&utm_medium=podcast&utm_campaign=changelog-interviews

11. Migrating to Neon (00:24:13)

https://github.com/thechangelog/changelog.com/pull/492

12. Getting started on Neon (00:26:07)

13. Jerod on non-local dev envs (00:30:07)

14. Query latency (00:35:24)

15. Read replicas (00:41:06)

16. Fastly CDN issue (00:42:24)

https://github.com/thechangelog/changelog.com/issues/486

17. Create a custom CDN? (00:44:42)

18. Should we try this? (00:48:46)

19. Dev & maintenance costs (00:53:33)

20. Bandwidth costs (00:58:18)

21. Varnish vs Nginx (01:01:23)

22. Building partners (01:03:36)

23. Limping in to a custom CDN (01:05:07)

24. Sponsor: Neon (01:09:52)

https://neon.tech

25. Fly + Supabase (01:15:21)

https://fly.io/docs/reference/supabase/

26. CDN Shopping (01:17:28)

27. Would Vercel buy Neon? (01:18:23)

https://vercel.com/docs/storage/vercel-postgres

28. Gerhard's easter egg (01:21:03)

29. Final thoughts (01:27:59)

30. Coming up next (Join ++!) (01:30:24)

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