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		Want a performant site? Flat-file sites are totally the new old thing (loadzen.com)
		2 points by jively on July 17, 2014 \| hide \| past \| favorite \| 1 comment

owlish on July 17, 2014 [–]

Why not just offload static resources to a CDN and cache dynamic content so as little work is done as possible? I can see how flat-files are good for completely static sites like blogs, but that seems more like a corner case.

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