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by thadt 229 days ago
S3 is doing quite a lot of sophisticated lifting to qualify as no backend at all.

But yeah - this is pretty neat. Easily seems like the future of static datasets should wind up in something like this. Just data, with some well chosen indices.
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simonw 229 days ago
I believe all S3 has to do here is respond to HTTP Range queries, which are supported by almost every static server out there - Apache, Nginx etc should all support the same trick.
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thadt 228 days ago
100%. I’m with y’all - this is what I would also call a “no-backend” solution and I’m all in on this type of approach for static data sets - this is the future, and could be served with a very simple web server.

I’m just bemused that we all refer to one of the larger, more sophisticated storage systems on the plant, composed of dozens of subsystems and thousands of servers as “no backend at all.” Kind of a “draw the rest of the owl”.

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theultdev 229 days ago
Still qualifies imo. Everything is static and on a CDN.

Lack of server/dynamic code qualifies as no backend.

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