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Why Caddy is called Caddy
Matt Holt started Caddy in 2014 as a computer-science student and released it in 2015. The name carries the golf-caddy idea — a helper that handles the tedious parts of serving the web — and the server went on to be the first to do HTTPS automatically by default.
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