I get the impression that this has been thought about to some extent, but its a constantly changing architecture with new layers and new ideas being added, so for every bit of progress there's the chance of new Single Points Of Failure being added. This time it seems to be a DNS problem with DynamoDB
It should be! When I was a complete newbie at AWS my first question was why do you have to pick a region, I thought the whole point was you didn't have to worry about that stuff
One might hope that this, too, would be handled by the service. Send the traffic to the closest region, and then fallback to other regions as necessary. Basically, send the traffic to the closest region that can successfully serve it.
But yeah, that's pretty hard and there are other reasons customers might want to explicitly choose the region.
I reckon advertising the fact you're willing to pay to get around this, which I expect is probably against ToS and the employment agreement with the company name isn't the best choice.
we're not willing to do anything against the ToS, I haven't checked them yet and we'll do things in compliance with policies, I'm just posting a problem and looking for a valid credible solution. thank you for the note!
Anecdotally, I recently worked on a project that used a Flag CDN - worked fine for a long time, then started sporadically failing.
As such I don't think I'd used anything in production hosted on a none static copy CDN like Cloudflare, sure Cloudflare could do down, but we probably all have bigger issues then than my flags not working.
True! but the mitigation for nothing being guaranteed is to … well avoid free public CDNs :-). Unless they are backed by a big company maybe.
Sprawling these kinds of links in your markdown instead if /assets/icons/mylocalicon.png seems a bit risky. Markdown tends to get used in Github / Local Git which can happily just reference the files stored along with it.
Also maybe hugo/jekyll type sites or internal docs. Same thing.
So the effort posted here is great but I would prefer a zip to a CDN link.
Yeah, I suppose as part of a build process you could find references to the icons generated, download them, store locally and use those - the service itself is brilliant, super useful being able to generate those icons on the fly - it's just having it as a dependency for something so key is hard.
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