Though if you get creative. There might be some possible Rube-Goldberg level of cost-cutting that might be possible. Something one should never do in production for code maintainability (maybe?)
In general, our API functions in 2 major step - listing of emails, and reading of the email content, with separate API calls. And due to its workflow, its always in that sequence.
From the documentation of Cloudflare VCL and Cache API
What we can do is split the API routing into
listing on Cloudflare worker
reading of email body on firebase (or something else) with standard Cloudflare in front of it
So that during the initial "listing of emails" - what we can do is to fill in the Cloudflare cache for the subsequent "reading of email" API call. For the top 10 emails in the list (if any).
And when the subsequent "reading of email" is called on the user click, it would hopefully be reading from cache, saving a single call hit... And if it misses, it would simply fall back to firebase.
But like I said, it's a crazy rube-Goldberg. And would only technically work cause there is a reasonable chance of hitting the same Cloudflare node due to the magic of http2.
And that's assuming it works lol - would be amused to see someone experiment with such setups.
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Yeah, I realized after i wrote it that you'd still hit the Workers and incur a cost for it, so normal hosting would be cheaper.
Though if you get creative. There might be some possible Rube-Goldberg level of cost-cutting that might be possible. Something one should never do in production for code maintainability (maybe?)
In general, our API functions in 2 major step - listing of emails, and reading of the email content, with separate API calls. And due to its workflow, its always in that sequence.
From the documentation of Cloudflare VCL and Cache API
What we can do is split the API routing into
So that during the initial "listing of emails" - what we can do is to fill in the Cloudflare cache for the subsequent "reading of email" API call. For the top 10 emails in the list (if any).
And when the subsequent "reading of email" is called on the user click, it would hopefully be reading from cache, saving a single call hit... And if it misses, it would simply fall back to firebase.
But like I said, it's a crazy rube-Goldberg. And would only technically work cause there is a reasonable chance of hitting the same Cloudflare node due to the magic of http2.
And that's assuming it works lol - would be amused to see someone experiment with such setups.