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It even gives you a CDN. GitHub Pages is fronted by Fastly.


I tried using github pages with fastly, however it appears when a new site deployment is done, github does not invalidate the fastly cache, in addition to fastly independently caching resources on the site, which can cause broken site deployments for several minutes where it is using mixed cached resources from old and new deployments. I opened a ticket with github support, and they said it was expected behavior. It makes it partially unusable for me.


I experienced this as well, wonder if one could mitigate this with some site parameters though?


Legitimate doubt:

Fronted or frontended?


frontended doesn't make sense as a word. Fronted has many somewhat applicable definitions including

* provide (something) with a front or facing of a particular type or material. * act as a front or cover for someone or something acting illegally or wishing to conceal something. "he fronted for them in illegal property deals" * stand face to face with; confront.


As a non native speaker I came to the conclusion that in English it is possible to turn any noun into a verb. Not parent but "Frontended" made sense to me.


I'm a native English speaker. Have been for over 50 years. Frontended sounded perfectly natural to me.


Thank you for the clarification.




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