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by SaveTheRbtz 2150 days ago
We've actually started experimenting with converting our static file serving to "proxying to S3 + caching." This is simpler from deployment and development perspectives (for companies that do not have a distributed filesystem, like Google with its GFS):

* for deployment we do not need to maintain a pool of stateful boxes with files on them and keep these files in sync.

* for development, engineers now have a programatic interface for managing your static assets.