Archives - Jul 2009

Built For Speed: Prevent Amazon CloudFront From Serving Stale Assets

By Intridea July 8, 2009 in s3, built_for_speed, cloudfront,

Uh-oh. Because the files have the same names, the CloudFront edge servers won’t update from the central asset server to use the latest image, and your users will continue to see the stale, old image.

Built For Speed: Using Amazon CloudFront To Serve Assets

By Intridea July 6, 2009 in amazon, s3, performance, yslow, built_for_speed, cloudfront

There are a lot of CDNs out there, but I’ve decided to use Amazon’s CloudFront because it’s relatively cheap and easy to set up (not to mention it integrates seamlessly with S3).

Sketchnotes from the UIE Roadshow

By Dave Potsiadlo July 1, 2009 in sketchnotes, user experience