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Hands-On Enterprise Application Development with Python

You're reading from   Hands-On Enterprise Application Development with Python Design data-intensive Application with Python 3

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Product type Paperback
Published in Dec 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781789532364
Length 374 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Saurabh Badhwar Saurabh Badhwar
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Preface 1. Using Python for Enterprise 2. Design Patterns – Making a Choice FREE CHAPTER 3. Building for Large-Scale Database Operations 4. Dealing with Concurrency 5. Building for Large-Scale Request Handling 6. Example – Building BugZot 7. Building Optimized Frontends 8. Writing Testable Code 9. Profiling Applications for Performance 10. Securing Your Application 11. Taking the Microservices Approach 12. Testing and Tracing in Microservices 13. Going Serverless 14. Deploying to the Cloud 15. Enterprise Application Integration and its Patterns 16. Microservices and Enterprise Application Integration 17. Assessment 18. Other Books You May Enjoy

Chapter 7

Answer 1

The use of CDN does improve the loading performance of a web page. This is because of the way the browser caches the content from a given URL. Sometimes, we can gain the following benefits when we use an existing CDN to serve some of the content:

  • For some of the frontend libraries that are common, there is a chance that the libraries are already cached by the user's browser while they visited some other website, which include the content from the CDN. This helps us to avoid redownloading those libraries and reduces the bandwidth usage and improves the loading speed of the page.
  • CDNs can also route the request to the servers based on the user geography so that the content is downloaded with the...
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