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Published inFeb 2022
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Michele Riva
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Michele Riva

Michele Riva is a passionate and experienced Software Engineer and Google Developer Expert from Milan, Italy. During the last years, he has contributed to many open-source projects from big companies and foundations, such as Facebook and Apache, in many different programming languages and paradigms, including Haskell, Erlang, Go, and JavaScript. He has also written dozens of public domain articles on different topics (software architecture, functional programming, performance enhancements, etc.) and gave many talks at conferences and meetups. He is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer in the architecture team at ViacomCBS, where he is building a multi-tenant Node.js application at the heart of their websites and streaming services.
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Deploying a static site to a CDN

When talking about a CDN (short for content delivery network), we refer to a geographically distributed network of data centers used to achieve high availability and performance when serving content to users in any part of the world.

To keep it simple, let's give an example. I currently live near Milan, Italy, and I want my web application to be used in potentially any part of the world. So, where should I host it from a geographical point of view?

Certain providers, such as Amazon AWS, DigitalOcean, and Microsoft Azure (and many more), will let you choose a specific data center to serve your application from. For example, I could select AWS eu-south-1 (Milan, Italy), ap-northeast-2 (Seoul, South Korea), or sa-east-1 (São Paulo, Brazil). If I choose to serve my web application from Milan, Italian users will notice a very low latency when trying to reach the web application; it is geographically located very close to them. The same could...

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Michele Riva is a passionate and experienced Software Engineer and Google Developer Expert from Milan, Italy. During the last years, he has contributed to many open-source projects from big companies and foundations, such as Facebook and Apache, in many different programming languages and paradigms, including Haskell, Erlang, Go, and JavaScript. He has also written dozens of public domain articles on different topics (software architecture, functional programming, performance enhancements, etc.) and gave many talks at conferences and meetups. He is currently working as a Senior Software Engineer in the architecture team at ViacomCBS, where he is building a multi-tenant Node.js application at the heart of their websites and streaming services.
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