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<summary>Changelog</summary>
2025-01-17: Added details about Cloudflare
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Last week I [announced](https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mtepw4cvbmdvu7zygmm5xbop/post/3lf5iccpxj22u) the launch of a new project I've been working on - ✨ [Cloud Native Now](https://cloudnative.now/) ✨ - a new monthly newsletter that will provide a roundup of all the happenings in the cloud native world. This newsletter is my attempt at keeping myself, and others, up-to-date on all the latest news, tools and events happening in the cloud native world. A new issue will be published each month on the last Friday of that month and contain a roundup of articles, announcements, tools, tutorials, events and CFPs relating to cloud native technologies and the community. Last week I [announced](https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:mtepw4cvbmdvu7zygmm5xbop/post/3lf5iccpxj22u) the launch of a new project I've been working on - ✨ [Cloud Native Now](https://cloudnative.now/) ✨ - a new monthly newsletter that will provide a roundup of all the happenings in the cloud native world. This newsletter is my attempt at keeping myself, and others, up-to-date on all the latest news, tools and events happening in the cloud native world. A new issue will be published each month on the last Friday of that month and contain a roundup of articles, announcements, tools, tutorials, events and CFPs relating to cloud native technologies and the community.
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There's several things I already have planned as well as some vague ideas for things I might do, depending on how popular this ends up becoming. There's several things I already have planned as well as some vague ideas for things I might do, depending on how popular this ends up becoming.
Besides improving the monitoring as mentioned above I plan to also implement [Cloudflare](https://www.cloudflare.com/) as a cache in front of the website to ensure the database doesn't get overloaded too much. Besides improving the monitoring as mentioned above ~I plan to also implement [Cloudflare](https://www.cloudflare.com/) as a cache in front of the website to ensure the database doesn't get overloaded too much~ (see below).
Eventually, after a couple issues or so to get a feel for what people want, I'm hoping to also set up an accompanying Podcast where I talk with a different guest each month about all the happenings in that months newsletter. I want to use this as a way to talk with all the ✨ wonderful ✨ humans in our cloud native community and get a wide and diverse array of thoughts and opinions to complement (and maybe contrast) with my own. I'm really hoping to not have this just become "another white guy with a podcast" but something that can really show the amazing individuals and efforts without our community. Eventually, after a couple issues or so to get a feel for what people want, I'm hoping to also set up an accompanying Podcast where I talk with a different guest each month about all the happenings in that months newsletter. I want to use this as a way to talk with all the ✨ wonderful ✨ humans in our cloud native community and get a wide and diverse array of thoughts and opinions to complement (and maybe contrast) with my own. I'm really hoping to not have this just become "another white guy with a podcast" but something that can really show the amazing individuals and efforts without our community.
If things go well and this ends up taking off, I have some loose plans on how to cover the costs as things grow. I guarantee that all newsletter editions will always be freely available without an account but I'm hoping to later introduce paid membership that comes with some extra goodies. Not sure what _exactly_ yet but I'm thinking along the lines of being able to add comments to the posts, the warm good feeling of helping keeping things running and _maybe_ some physical rewards (postcards, stickers, etc.) if I can figure out how to send to the EU. 😅 There's also a possibility to sponsored posts and job listings in the future but I need to come up with some requirements that these would need to meet first to ensure quality. If things go well and this ends up taking off, I have some loose plans on how to cover the costs as things grow. I guarantee that all newsletter editions will always be freely available without an account but I'm hoping to later introduce paid membership that comes with some extra goodies. Not sure what _exactly_ yet but I'm thinking along the lines of being able to add comments to the posts, the warm good feeling of helping keeping things running and _maybe_ some physical rewards (postcards, stickers, etc.) if I can figure out how to send to the EU. 😅 There's also a possibility to sponsored posts and job listings in the future but I need to come up with some requirements that these would need to meet first to ensure quality.
And who knows... maybe I'll go wild and look at putting together a [conference](https://bsky.app/profile/salisburyheavyindustries.com/post/3lf5j56yo5k2w) that I've always wanted too! And who knows... maybe I'll go wild and look at putting together a [conference](https://bsky.app/profile/salisburyheavyindustries.com/post/3lf5j56yo5k2w) that I've always wanted too!
### Updates
I have now switched to using [Cloudflare](https://www.cloudflare.com/) for the nameserver and proxying requests through their edge servers with a 2 hour cache added to most of the site. This should allow the site to remain up, and read-only, during any periods where the database (or other) is having trouble. I did have a small issue when setting this up that resulted in infinite redirects - turns out I needed to switch from "Flexible" to "Full" in the Cloudflare SSL configuration, otherwise nginx kept trying to perform a redirect to the SSL port as Cloudflare was sending traffic to port 80.
For those interested, this is the specific expression I'm using for the caching in Cloudflare with an Edge TTL of 2 hours:
```
(http.request.full_uri wildcard "https://cloudnative.now/*" and not starts_with(http.request.uri.path, "/ghost/"))
or
(http.request.full_uri wildcard "https://www.cloudnative.now/*" and not starts_with(http.request.uri.path, "/ghost/"))
```