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We survived 10k requests/second: Switching to signed asset URLs in an emergency
A long day of debugging led to a better solution: Signed URLs.
After speed walking the trip home while listening to Bride(I’m making my way through the Trending Books), I got to work tracking down what was happening. Things are working for our website visitors, but we need to do one more step for API users: create a new endpoint for generating signed URLs. What will always be true is that you’ll be able to get any data about books, editions, authors, series, publishers, characters, your library and whatever people that follow you have decided to share.
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