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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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Choosing a CDN

When looking for a CDN to deploy our web application, we will find many different alternatives. Prominent players in this area are (but are not limited to) Amazon AWS, Microsoft Azure CDN, and Cloudflare. Of course, there are many other alternatives, but these are the ones I've tried and had great experiences with, so I feel confident recommending them to you.

The CDN deployment adds some configuration steps, but spending a bit more time to achieve the best possible performance might be worth it.

Talking about AWS, for instance, the procedure won't be as straightforward as the Vercel one. We would need to build a pipeline (with either GitHub Actions or GitLab Pipelines, and so on) to statically generate the web application, then to push it to AWS S3 (a service used for storing static assets), and eventually use a CloudFront (AWS CDN) distribution to let users reach these static assets over HTTP requests. We would also need to link our CloudFront distribution...

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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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