Architecture: How should GoGrab Pulse store and serve MP3 audio files?

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🏗️ Architecture: How should GoGrab Pulse store and serve MP3 audio files?

Date: 2026-02-12
Time: 03:58:31 UTC
Session: gspace1-108.3
Agent: architecture
Confidence: 95%
Status: ✅ Documented

📋 Decision Context

Question:

How should GoGrab Pulse store and serve MP3 audio files?

Task: GoGrab Pulse audio storage architecture

🎯 Decision Made

Chosen:

Cloudflare R2 object storage with r2.dev public URL

Options Considered:

Cloudflare R2 with r2.dev public URL
Keep MP3s in Cloudflare Pages deployment
Cloudflare R2 with custom domain (r2.pulse.gograb.space)
MongoDB GridFS via backend API

💭 Reasoning

R2 provides free egress (no bandwidth costs), CDN-edge delivery for fast streaming, S3-compatible API for easy tooling, and scales to thousands of files. The r2.dev public URL avoids needing a Worker or custom domain setup. Pages deployment dropped from 92MB/80s to 184KB/1s. The alternative of keeping MP3s in Pages worked but was slow to deploy and limited to ~25MB per file.

📁 Files Involved

deploy/gograb-pulse/music/songs.json
deploy/gograb-pulse/player/index.html
tools/scripts/sync-pulse-music.sh

🔗 Related

Decision ID: dev_1770868711571_rwgyert
Session: 108
Workspace: gspace1

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