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What CDN will be the First To Reach $500M in Annual Sales
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Webscale Closes $14M Round in Series B
Webscale, the Sunnyvale startup has just raised $14M, bringing the total raised to $32M. The Digital Cloud Company, as they … [Read More...]
Competitive Brief: Fastly to Lead the Industry’s Edge Computing Efforts Against AWS
Tomorrow Fastly will go public breaking a 12-year dry spell for a CDN IPO. Limelight Networks went public in June 2007, … [Read More...]
Latest CDN Industry Buzz – Q2 2019
Due to popular demand, we're continuing with this series, publishing it quarterly. During our research efforts, we sometimes … [Read More...]
Basics of Securing Microservices
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Erlang and Concurrency Programming
Roger Armstrong, computer scientist and co-creator of the Erlang programming language, died earlier this month. Many tributes … [Read More...]
Fastly Files for IPO, Breaking 12 Year CDN IPO Dry Spell
Last Friday, Fastly announced it had filed an IPO with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. The number of shares that … [Read More...]
Distil’s 6th Bad Bot Report Reveals More Sophisticated Threats
For the last six years, the bot detection company Distil has been releasing an annual bad bot report. The Distil Research Lab … [Read More...]
OpenAI Making Significant Advances in AGI
OpenAI was founded in San Francisco in 2015 with a mission “to ensure that artificial general intelligence benefits all of … [Read More...]
API Battles – gRPC vs. REST
During the build of a new web-based service, one of the first questions to arise is, “How will I talk to it?” There are many … [Read More...]
Big Data Storage Models Overview – Lustre, GlusterFS and Ceph
Storage used to be simple. A single large expensive drive (SLED) was all that was needed; then the industry moved onto … [Read More...]
Netskope Building a CDN Caliber Global Network
What does a company do when they raise $400M, are a leader in CASB (cloud access security broker), have a growing product … [Read More...]
Summary of Rust vs Go
Rust vs. Go? Which language today offers the magic combination of simplicity and power? Both Rust and Go appear to be systems … [Read More...]
Data Serialization – Protocol Buffers vs Thrift vs Avro
What is Data Serialization? Data serialization refers to the process of translating data structures or object state into a … [Read More...]