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Cloudflare Instant Starter is a short introduction to the Cloudflare content delivery network. Never having used a CDN before, beyond those provided by Google and jQuery, I was curious to see what the buzz around Cloudflare was, and this book provides a great overview, managing to be short and easy to understand, yet also cover the service in a reasonable depth.
The book begins with a simple overview of the terminology involved and what a CDN is. Not being familiar with service like Cloudflare this was useful, although as a reasonably technical reader I found the section on the basics of IPs and DNS rather unnecessary. However the author goes on to explain the differences between Cloudflare and “traditional” CDNs, and I was impressed by how much the service is able to do. I don’t want to turn this review into a review of Cloudflare, so I won’t go into the features, but suffice to say the author does an excellent job of describing the (many) options available, and clearing up exactly what each one does and when a site owner would see the benefit of them.
I found the tone engaging and helpful, and although the book may seem somewhat pricey for only 50 pages of material, the level of detail is pitched higher than you might expect, and much more helpful than most 50 page books. The author manages to get in a lot of information and useful instruction without waffling or dwelling for too long on any one topic.
The book begins with a simple overview of the terminology involved and what a CDN is. Not being familiar with service like Cloudflare this was useful, although as a reasonably technical reader I found the section on the basics of IPs and DNS rather unnecessary. However the author goes on to explain the differences between Cloudflare and “traditional” CDNs, and I was impressed by how much the service is able to do. I don’t want to turn this review into a review of Cloudflare, so I won’t go into the features, but suffice to say the author does an excellent job of describing the (many) options available, and clearing up exactly what each one does and when a site owner would see the benefit of them.
I found the tone engaging and helpful, and although the book may seem somewhat pricey for only 50 pages of material, the level of detail is pitched higher than you might expect, and much more helpful than most 50 page books. The author manages to get in a lot of information and useful instruction without waffling or dwelling for too long on any one topic.
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