Pre-signed urls

Growingest.Started 7 Sept 20261 min read#system-design #engineering

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Pre signed urls rather than streaming through api servers with bigger timeouts. This frees servers to do other things, this is supposedly a secure way to get clients direct access to blob storage for either upload or download
Get access to blob storage directly for upload

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Common System Design PatternsGrowing
Database Replication and read replicas. Something something geolocalisation. Postgres has extensions for this.