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Episode 12 - Unleashing Web Traffic with Content Delivery Networks

13 mins

Every website and application often delivers a number of assets as static content. Things like images, CSS or JavaScript, grow in number and total size as your site evolves. And along with them, you’ll also see a jump in load times and bandwidth requirements.

Site performance is an important part of improving your search rankings, discoverability, and traffic. Especially when so much of the web is now viewed through mobile devices with limited bandwidth or high latency.

Content Deliver Networks or CDNs, work by caching static assets across servers geographically distributed all over the world. They reduce load times, improve performance, and minimize bandwidth and infrastructure costs.

Let’s dive into the details.

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12 Trending Alternatives for Distributing Python Applications in 2020

One of the more prevalent topics in the Python ecosystem of 2019 was that of packaging and distribution. As the year comes to an end, I wanted to put together a summary of the many paths we currently have available to distribute apps built with Python. Though some of these also apply to any language.

Whether delivering an executable, a virtual environment, your packaged code, or a full application, the following list includes both standard systems and some up-and-comers to keep in mind as we enter 2020.

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