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Erisa

EErisa For live updates you should 100% be using a websocket

McSneaky

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McSneaky•7/5/23, 10:49 PM

Yeah.. Dealing with legacy stuff.. Trying to figure out faster workarounds

Erisa

EErisa Not quite what I had in mind but for your use case that.. might work? Maybe?

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McSneaky•7/5/23, 10:50 PM

So instead of random hashes I'd have like

myfile.v1.js

myfile.v1.js

,

myfile.v2.js

myfile.v2.js

,

myfile.v3.js

myfile.v3.js

etc

McSneaky

MMcSneaky So instead of random hashes I'd have like `myfile.v1.js`, `myfile.v2.js`, `myfil...

dave

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dave•7/5/23, 10:50 PM

have

myfile.latest.js

myfile.latest.js

that does a 303 redirect to whatever the current version is

dave

Ddave have `myfile.latest.js` that does a 303 redirect to whatever the current version...

McSneaky

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McSneaky•7/5/23, 10:51 PM

Aah! That's real good idea!

McSneaky

MMcSneaky Aah! That's real good idea!

dave

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dave•7/5/23, 10:51 PM

it's not an original one, I can't take credit

McSneaky

MMcSneaky So instead of random hashes I'd have like `myfile.v1.js`, `myfile.v2.js`, `myfil...

Erisa

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ErisaOP•7/5/23, 10:51 PM

I see, yeah what dave said

Erisa

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ErisaOP•7/5/23, 10:51 PM

I've seen that done with some success

McSneaky

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McSneaky•7/5/23, 10:52 PM

Noice. Thnx for discussions!
I can do redirects thro API all good

And that will work in production long enuf until I (or someone else) figure out how to update client side legacy code to support WS directly

Erisa

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ErisaOP•7/5/23, 10:53 PM

websockets are OP for live updates, its how your discord client is showing all our messages in realtime

dave

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dave•7/5/23, 10:54 PM

This is a guess:

Put these headers on the redirected

myfile.latest.js

myfile.latest.js

:

cache-control: private, no-transform, no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, s-maxage=0

cache-control: private, no-transform, no-cache, no-store, max-age=0, s-maxage=0

And these headers on

myfile.v*.js

myfile.v*.js

:

cache-control: private, immutable, no-transform, max-age=31536000, s-maxage=31536000

cache-control: private, immutable, no-transform, max-age=31536000, s-maxage=31536000

You should change

private

private

to

public

public

if these files aren't custom per-user.

dave

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dave•7/5/23, 10:56 PM

personally I would recommend using this for the redirect:

https://cdn.example.com/js/@teamname/productname@latest/index.js

https://cdn.example.com/js/@teamname/productname@latest/index.js

And like this for the versioned files:

https://cdn.example.com/js/@teamname/productname@1.2.3/index.js

https://cdn.example.com/js/@teamname/productname@1.2.3/index.js

dave

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dave•7/5/23, 10:56 PM

that's how https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/@stoplight/elements@latest/ does it iirc

@stoplight/elements CDN by jsDelivr - A free, fast, and reliable Op...

@stoplight/elements CDN by jsDelivr - A free, fast, and reliable Open Source CDN for npm and GitHub

Erisa

EErisa websockets are OP for live updates, its how your discord client is showing all o...

McSneaky

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McSneaky•7/5/23, 10:59 PM

We were using WS, that was many years ago. We weren't using Cloudflare nor did Cloudflare support websockets. Then at some point we got 250k new WS connections per second, peaking at about 10-15m. Ofc our servers died under that (each connection had to deal with quite some DB reads and writes etc). We were estimating scale of about 300 concurrent connections..

So I got the idea of bundling it all into JS files, since we really didn't need that much of an realtime
Now times have changed and we need realtime again.. But team who made move from WS to bundled JS isn't around anymore, so it's rather interesting digging.. I kinda know what should be there in codebase, but not too sure. It's been over 3y since I worked on that codebase. For all that time it had 5 people on it full-time, so it's been totally rewritten about 2-3 times for sure

Erisa

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ErisaOP•7/5/23, 11:00 PM

nor did Cloudflare support websockets

dang, that must have been quite some time ago

Erisa

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ErisaOP•7/5/23, 11:01 PM

blog says they were supported in 2014

McSneaky

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McSneaky•7/5/23, 11:02 PM

For our use-case we needed (and still need) connection to go to workers, but workers weren't a thing then. Now with durable objects it became possible to move it all to CF

Erisa

EErisa > nor did Cloudflare support websockets dang, that must have been quite some tim...

dave

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dave•7/5/23, 11:04 PM

It was enterprise only, at least in June 2015 when I asked.

McSneaky

MMcSneaky For our use-case we needed (and still need) connection to go to workers, but wor...

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McSneaky•7/5/23, 11:06 PM

It's in dev plan, when we get to it is other thing..
Other thing in dev plan is getting really good deal from CF for 10b worker requests to run some AI models on the edge

Erisa

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ErisaOP•7/5/23, 11:08 PM

by my rough maths, 10 bil workers bundled reqs on paygo plan would be like $5,000 or so

dave

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dave•7/5/23, 11:09 PM

that's less than payroll for most folks (in the US anyway)

Erisa

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ErisaOP•7/5/23, 11:10 PM

indeed

McSneaky

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McSneaky•7/5/23, 11:12 PM

Most likely as enterprise customer we'd get off from there, but money is tight for business currently. Since market went interesting

McSneaky

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McSneaky•7/5/23, 11:12 PM

So it hasn't been priority

McSneaky

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McSneaky•7/5/23, 11:13 PM

I hope once we kill our own small bare-metal server farm, that keeps super legacy stuff running we can redirect that cash flow to fancy CF stuff

Erisa

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ErisaOP•7/5/23, 11:15 PM

I'm sure our sales team would love a chat when the time comes, if the paygo plan isnt enticing

McSneaky

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McSneaky•7/5/23, 11:16 PM

You have quite some good fellas in sales team
Can't remember the name of fella who was our sales contact. But he always got us real sweet deals
He also got us hooked in more cool stuff than we had time to implement

McSneaky

MMcSneaky It's in dev plan, when we get to it is other thing.. Other thing in dev plan is ...

dave

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dave•7/5/23, 11:16 PM

hopefully you're making money on those 10 billion requests?

dave

Ddave hopefully you're making money on those 10 billion requests?

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McSneaky•7/5/23, 11:18 PM

We currently make money already based on them. So adding edge-ai on top of that would be just cost at the beginning, until we finish tuning our models
After that can sell it to clients as additional feature for extra cost

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erichileman•7/5/23, 11:18 PM

Anyone know where the cloudlfare blog article / how to is for chatgpt, workers, and using kv for the vector db storage? It was an example loading in cf's own documentation. I could have sworn I read one a few weeks back but now can't find it...

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McSneaky•7/5/23, 11:18 PM

For how long it would be just a cost, is unknown. That's why business isn't too keen to jump that bandwagon yet + we are in eastern Europe. For that money you can get 2 devs in here

erichileman

Eerichileman Anyone know where the cloudlfare blog article / how to is for chatgpt, workers, ...

McSneaky

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McSneaky•7/5/23, 11:20 PM

Hmm, someone at work shared similar article some time ago. Lemme see if can find it from history somewhere

erichileman

Eerichileman Anyone know where the cloudlfare blog article / how to is for chatgpt, workers, ...

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McSneaky•7/5/23, 11:21 PM

https://blog.cloudflare.com/langchain-and-cloudflare/
That one?

The Cloudflare Blog

Using LangChainJS and Cloudflare Workers together

We are incredibly stoked that our friends at LangChain have announced LangChainJS Support for Cloudflare Workers! In this post we'll show you how to build a sample application.

McSneaky

MMcSneaky https://blog.cloudflare.com/langchain-and-cloudflare/ That one?

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erichileman•7/5/23, 11:25 PM

Thank you, but I don't think it was that one. The one I'm thinking of was specifically loading cf's own knowledgebase in. This one is using a wikipedia article on Brooklyn.

erichileman

Eerichileman Thank you, but I don't think it was that one. The one I'm thinking of was speci...

Chaika

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Chaika•7/5/23, 11:28 PM

I believe it was this one https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-chatgpt-plugins/

The Cloudflare Blog

Query Cloudflare Radar and our docs using ChatGPT plugins

We’re excited to share two new Cloudflare ChatGPT plugins – the Cloudflare Radar plugin and the Cloudflare Docs plugin

Chaika

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Chaika•7/5/23, 11:28 PM

the later half of that blog talks about the docs plugin using kv for vector store and embeddings

Chaika

CChaika I believe it was this one https://blog.cloudflare.com/cloudflare-chatgpt-plugins...

erichileman

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erichileman•7/5/23, 11:30 PM

Yes! It's in the second half and that's why I was missing it. Thank you!!

McSneaky

MMcSneaky For how long it would be just a cost, is unknown. That's why business isn't too ...

dave

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dave•7/5/23, 11:41 PM

charge customers per requests, that scales nicely

dave

Ddave charge customers per requests, that scales nicely

McSneaky

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McSneaky•7/5/23, 11:43 PM

Jup, that's what we do, charging per 1m requests

McSneaky

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McSneaky•7/5/23, 11:44 PM

Just increasing that too much would not make customers too happy, unless we can pitch / prove additional value

Chaika

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Chaika•7/6/23, 12:32 AM

it's really not recommended to do so, it's in alpha, the new experimental backend does seem pretty stable, but there's no backups, "time travel" is planned but not available yet, etc

Unsmart

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Unsmart•7/6/23, 12:34 AM

DynamoDB and D1 are very very different. A closer alternative on cloudflare is Durable Objects.

dave

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dave•7/6/23, 2:52 AM

How can I use a transform rule that only triggers if the location header is

https://*.trustedexample/*

https://*.trustedexample/*

?

peshakoo

Ppeshakoo hypothetically would my domains be forgotten

Dubz

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Dubz•7/6/23, 4:19 AM

Assuming you can, then most likely? I think it goes into a grace period, so you couldn't do this in one night. It would possibly take a month or longer. If you have domains registered through Cloudflare, it may require you to transfer them out to a different registrar before you can delete the account.

Dubz

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Dubz•7/6/23, 4:19 AM

May I ask why you're looking to do this? Perhaps there's an issue that needs addressed? Unless you're trying to delete something off the community or ban evade or something..?