Faster arXiv with Fastly

[erulabs]

Good promo for Fastly! Fastly is a great company - effectively they're Varnish-as-a-Service, which is really a non-trivial SaaS. I hope this brings in some business for them.

[alberth]

I read an analogy once and its that:

Fastly == Linux (ability to changes lots of things to tailor to your exact needs)

Cloudflare == macOS (prepackaged to work for most general users, limited config)

[boiler_up800]

Good job Fastly. I would love to see metrics on bandwidth consumed from Arxiv. I always wonder how it and services like package repositories are able to provide their downloads for free.

[anildash]

That's a cool idea! Arxiv is a member of our Fast Forward program at Fastly, which helps a lot of open source/open web projects, and we've enabled other projects to share that kind of data in the past, so maybe we can figure out how to help them do that too. (One example is Kubernetes; you can see their live request data on our developer site. https://developer.fastly.com/ )

[upbeat_general]

This is such great news, I've been annoyed with slow arXiv loads for a while and happy to hopefully see it fixed!