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aaronblohowiak on April 22, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why Twilio Wasn’t Affected by Today’s AWS Issues

Why not stick an angel-mode Varnish in between? Serving stale blog is usually better than no blog!

emcooke on April 22, 2011 [–]

Yup, good idea. We set up an ngnix proxy to cache the page while the blog hosting provider fixes their server.

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