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CDN Setup

Part of the Backend Developer Roadmap.

Summary

Placing a Content Delivery Network in front of static assets or cacheable API responses so they're served from edge locations near the user instead of your origin server every time.

How to Learn This

  • 1Put a CDN (Cloudflare, CloudFront) in front of a set of static assets.
  • 2Learn how CDN caching interacts with the `Cache-Control` headers you set on your responses.
  • 3Understand a CDN can also provide DDoS protection and reduce origin server load.

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