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dantiberian on Aug 16, 2024 | parent | context | favorite | on: We survived 10k requests/second: Switching to sign...

Could you explain more why you were you not able to sign the URLs at request time? Creating an HMAC is very fast.

dyogenez on Aug 16, 2024 [–]

I’m going to have to look into this today. I assuming generating the URLs hit an API, but if those can happen fast locally that changes things.

ku1ik on Aug 16, 2024 | [–]

Yup, pre-signing is fast and local, without any I/O. It’s just math. You could likely pre-sign thousands of URLs per second if you needed.

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