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Some things I learned while using Cloudflare Workers

This protection helps me reduce load on my apps and avoid unnecessary error logs

Snippets allow you to extract parts of a template in the same file, and reuse that later in the same file.

Use Traefik's own self signed certificate feature out of the box

If you have ever seen the default Varnish guru error page, you know what I'm talking about.

An easy way to do it, when you need it

Advanced methods to warmup your cache after a restart or deployment

Content caching is the easy part, cache invalidation is where the rubber meets the road

How to deliver cached content fast while doing a background refresh or while your backend is down

Save some caching space if you have multiple domains using some of the same files.

2 factors to consider and 3 ways to choose from to get started with caching in Varnish

A simple way to start with Varnish is to avoid all the caching logic for logged in users.

Caching and everything else should work behind basic auth too.

One single source of truth for business logic related to incoming requests, caching, header transformation, etc...

Handle as many redirects as possible outside of your application

If you have a non-Wordpress application, why do you need to allow Wordpress requests coming in?

Both good and bad bots can cause some trouble with aggressive peaks in traffic.

You can either scale horizontally OR you can optimize your nginx config for handling of missing files.