Cloudflare Repositories FTW

Jim "Elwood" O'Gorman, a maintainer of Kali Linux, discusses the challenges faced by the popular open source penetration testing platform in distributing its software to users globally. The solution they found was using Cloudflare's CDN network, which significantly reduced load on their backend and improved download speeds for users. Despite initial issues with syncing an apt repository to a CDN and limitations on caching large files, these were resolved through tweaks in configuration and updates from Cloudflare respectively. The implementation resulted in a bandwidth savings of around 350TB per month for the open source project.