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0 pointsrbanffy1y ago0 comments

It's been a while since I last saw a CMS pulling data from a database... It's a miracle the website didn't crumble under the load.

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ksenzee1y ago· 2 in thread

Put a CMS behind a well-configured CDN and it's essentially a static site generator. If you have cache invalidation figured out, you get all the speed and scalability benefits of a static site without ever having to regenerate your content.

rbanffyOP1y ago

I’m guessing it didn’t have much in front of it because the management endpoints were accessible from the public Internet. I think you mentioning the “well configured CDN” is key here. If there was a CDN in front of it, it wasn’t well configured.

BTW, I spent a lot of my career configuring load balancing, caches, proxies, sharding, and CDNs for Plone (a CMS that’s popular with governments) websites.

ksenzee1y ago

Yeah sorry, I didn't mean to imply these folks have any clue what they're doing. I misread your comment as "it's been a while since I saw a CMS-based site, big sites are all static now" instead of "it's been a while since I saw a CMS rawdogging it."

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