Delivering Papers at the Edge

Academic personal sites often keep PDFs inside the source tree. That works for a few documents, but it ages badly once previews, slides, and related assets begin to accumulate.

Better split of responsibility

The repository should own:

• metadata
• page templates
• indexing
• SEO

Object storage should own:

• PDFs
• preview images
• larger binary attachments

That split keeps the codebase smaller and makes media delivery globally consistent.