CDN Industry Buzz in January 2023

It’s been two months since our last industry snapshot. Recently, there have been no industry-impacting events. But, in the sign of the times, Netlify has laid off 16% of its staff and Edgio 10%. We understand Edgio’s decision since the merger

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Qwilt’s Federated CDN Business Model

Qwilt was born between the inception of Cloudflare and Fastly. Instead of becoming a traditional CDN, they opted to become a CDN for service providers, also known as network operators. They have some indirect competition from the likes of Akamai,

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CDN Quarterly Report for Q2 2022

Beginning this quarter, we’ll publish a summary of the state of the CDN industry. The goal is to review specific topics and themes of the last quarter. Discussions around earnings, trends, market challenges, new product innovations, and industry competitiveness are

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Envoy Proxy Features and Basics

Introduction to Envoy Envoy is an open source L7 edge and service proxy. It was developed as a high performance C++ distributed proxy intended for standalone services and applications, in addition to large microservices. The Envoy code was built to

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AWS App Mesh vs Google Istio Service Mesh

The idea of a “service mesh” has become increasingly popular over the last couple of years and the number of alternatives available has risen. There are four open-source products available today: (i) Linkerd (sponsored by Buoyant). It was built on

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AWS Outposts vs. Microsoft Azure Stack

AWS Outposts – AWS Moves into the On-Premises Hardware Space Amazon Web Services is making its latest push into yet another part of the IT space with its imminent move into the on-premises hardware business. At re:Invent last month, AWS

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Microsoft Azure Functions vs. AWS Lamdba

Serverless computing, or FaaS (Functions-as-a-Service) is a form of cloud compute in which application developers depend on third party services to manage the server-side of operations, allowing them to focus on building applications on a function-by-function basis. The serverless platform

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AWS Latest Product Releases

At the AWS re:Invent Conference last week in Las Vegas, a number of new products were launched. These ranged from Elastic Inference and a new machine learning chip in the machine learning space to new cloud computing and serverless capabilities

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AWS IoT vs. Google IoT vs. Azure IoT

The big cloud trio has each entered the Internet of Things (IoT) space and are each spending significant sums on new services and investing in their IoT platforms. All three are betting on the long-term potential for significant margins. The

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Google Cloud Next 2018 Conference Wrap Up

Last week, Google Cloud held its latest Next conference in San Francisco, unveiling new AI features, partnerships, tools and technologies to build out its ecosystem and make its services more attractive to developers. The conference was Google Cloud’s largest to

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Avi Networks Becomes a Full-fledged Application Delivery Platform

Avi Networks, the Santa Clara, CA-headquartered software-only application delivery platform, recently launched new features that turn its next-generation technology into a fully-fledged application delivery platform. Its latest features employ machine learning and augment Avi’s integration with the Ansible and Terraform

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Shopify To Move Infrastructure To Google Cloud

Shopify is moving its infrastructure to Google Cloud. The Alphabet Inc. unit’s cloud service will host the e-commerce company’s online stores. It’s the latest win for Diana Greene, Google’s cloud chief, and the latest loss for Amazon. A series of

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Cool Startup: GoCache

GoCache is an up-and-coming CDN based in Brazil currently focused on the Brazilian market, particularly small and medium-sized businesses. It was founded in 2013. GoCache spent several years concentrated on building their platform after receiving seed funding from VCs. They

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