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Replace `make sync-images` by fallback in Cloudflare worker
Currently, when creating a staging server or setting up dev environment, we have to sync all GDoc images from r2:owid-image-upload/production
to r2:owid-image-upload-staging/my-env
by calling make sync-images
in order to make it work.
We could simplify this by having a Cloudflare worker handle requests to https://images-staging.owid.io/my-env/xxx.png and redirecting them to https://images.owid.io/production/xxx.png if the image doesn't exist. If the dev uploads an image to R2, the Cloudflare worker will use it instead of falling back to the production bucket. This would make the sync-images
command and the need for rclone
obsolete.
(We do it like this for Data API, and it works well. We could just copy the worker and change its config.)
@ikesau just to let you know that there's a possibility like that. Syncing images works well right now, so there's no need to change it. (Syncing images takes only ~30s so there's not much to gain either)