Forwarding files to third-party services
So far, we are hosting our user files on the server’s filesystem. This is sufficient for the educative scope of BeeRich. However, when working with user files, we should also consider hosting them on a dedicated file storage service. This section quickly outlines what else we need to consider when working with user files.
Hosting user files directly on a web server may not be sufficient for most use cases. Hosting files locally may be hard to scale and requires you to secure sensitive user files and backups on your systems. Additionally, reading and writing to disk might create a lot of overhead for the web server that can be avoided by delegating the reads and writes to a third-party service.
Most popular third-party storage services offer APIs to stream files. This allows us to receive the file upload as a stream of data so that we can forward the stream to a third-party service. After the upload is completed, the storage API...
