"Treat nonlogged in users as second class citizens. By always giving logged out always cached content Akamai bears the brunt for reddit’s traffic. Huge performance improvement. "
This is the lowest of low hanging fruit. Many people don't realize it but a ton of huge media sites use Akamai to offload most of their "read-only" traffic.
Definitely true, and one of the earliest and longest-standing optimisations. Even pre-Akamai, we had simple caching, both whole-page and per-object/query.
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"Treat nonlogged in users as second class citizens. By always giving logged out always cached content Akamai bears the brunt for reddit’s traffic. Huge performance improvement. "
This is the lowest of low hanging fruit. Many people don't realize it but a ton of huge media sites use Akamai to offload most of their "read-only" traffic.
Definitely true, and one of the earliest and longest-standing optimisations. Even pre-Akamai, we had simple caching, both whole-page and per-object/query.