{"id":1709,"date":"2008-11-28T17:49:53","date_gmt":"2008-11-28T17:49:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/?p=1709"},"modified":"2008-11-28T17:49:53","modified_gmt":"2008-11-28T17:49:53","slug":"amazon-cloudfront-simple-caching-and-naming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/redmonk.com\/jgovernor\/amazon-cloudfront-simple-caching-and-naming\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon CloudFront: Simple Caching and Naming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/farm4.static.flickr.com\/3164\/3066293962_c43a366fa2.jpg?v=0\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"356\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Amazon <a href=\"http:\/\/aws.amazon.com\/cloudfront\/\">CloudFront<\/a> is a new distributed caching mechanism, designed to get data closer to the user. Amazon says:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It integrates with other Amazon Web Services to give developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Which is nice and all- but I need to be hearing it from developers. Which is why <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/mattb\/statuses\/1026443704\">this<\/a> caught my eye the other day&#8230;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>geek footnote: the bigass images on dopplr&#8217;s new city pages are served from Amazon&#8217;s Cloudfront CDN. And it was really easy.<\/p>\n<div class=\"meta\"><span class=\"entry-meta\"> 02:51 PM November 27, 2008                             from <a href=\"http:\/\/iconfactory.com\/software\/twitterrific\">twitterrific<\/a> <\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"actions\">\n<form action=\"\/favorites\/create\/1026443704\" method=\"POST\">  <\/form>\n<\/div>\n<p>Needless to say I twittered the comment, and discovered that others in the network are having similar experiences. See <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/davejohnson\">davejohnson<\/a>. Of course these are just two data points, but the fact is my dial is turned very clearly to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hackdiary.com\/\">Matt Biddulph<\/a>. He is someone I have the greatest respect for, and his technical chops are unimpeachable. I shared an office with Matt and learned years worth of web development technique in months.<\/p>\n<p>Its also very easy using twitter search to come up with further agreement. see <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/jalegre\">@jalegre<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Very happy about Amazon CloudFront, about 100-120 msec for static files like images, js, etc&#8230; in Spain (going to France). Faster than S3<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Its not rocket science its findability. Meanwhile from a marketing perspective Amazon service naming is impeccable. The company hasn&#8217;t put a foot wrong since it started marketing its excess capacity to developers, and naming is very important in framing a market. On Twitter I said:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>in other news &#8211; cloudfront- what a brilliant product name. descriptive, evocative, right on the money. others could learn from amazon naming<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon CloudFront is a new distributed caching mechanism, designed to get data closer to the user. Amazon says: It integrates with other Amazon Web Services to give developers and businesses an easy way to distribute content to end users with low latency, high data transfer speeds, and no commitments. 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