VDMS (Verizon Digital Media Services) made two major announcements this week: another addition to its growing feature set with Real-Time Log Delivery (RTLD), and the news that Argentina’s largest media conglomerate, Grupo ClarÃn, is now using its CDN services, expanding
Earlier this month, Limelight Networks announced the fastest purge to date by its SmartPurge system: it removed 1.1 billion cached objects equaling 612 terabytes of data across the company’s global network in 123 milliseconds. Such speed is significant. Traditional ways
At the start of August, Fastly announced that it had added a collection of new points of presence (PoPs) to its global network. They now have 40 points of presence globally, most recently adding a new state-of-the-art facility in Rio
Expedia uses NGINX Plus for cloud migration at scale and routing traffic through its front door. Over the years, Expedia has configured NGINX based on three pillars of cloud migration. According to Dave Drinkle, Senior Software Engineer at Expedia, the
CacheFly launched in 2005 as a throughput-dedicated network built on a mix of proprietary and open source solutions. It can handle large, 100 TB+ caches, operates in over 80 countries, and is currently the highest throughput CDN in the world.
Varnish Software has rolled out Varnish Extend, a private do-it-yourself CDN, in collaboration with Cedexis, which monitors and optimizes web performance across data centers, CDNs, and clouds. It is a pre-packaged product that comes bundled with Varnish Plus, Varnish Software
Vitaliy Kushnerov, principal IT infrastructure architect at Tesla Motors and Rajaseka Jegannathan, a Tesla Web platform architect, described the process of creating a private CDN at the recent Varnish Summit in San Francisco. The CDN project was conceived out of
NGINX Plus is now available on Amazon Web Services (AWS) via AWS Cloud Quickstart, and can be accessed on the AWS Community Quick Starts landing page and the AWS Quickstart Github repository.
Now that the dust has settled on Google CDN, we can discuss the repercussions it will have on the CDN landscape. First, lets start off with Akamai, since they’re the biggest CDN out there. Does Google CDN impact Akamai? Yes.
Today is a historical day in the land of CDN… kinda. Google has officially upgraded their glorified load balancing service, which was previously called a CDN to “globally distributed edge caches to accelerate content delivery for websites”. Speedchecker went on
The ecosystem was first introduced to the makeup of the CDN SuperPoP when Fastly published their hardware specs for everyone to see. For many, what was once an extremely well guarded secret was no longer a secret, and some CDNs
There’s no doubt that Netflix is at the top of their game, serving over 75 million global members. But the remarkable thing for the streaming industry is that they built the foundation of their site using open source code. This
In addition to cultivating his sophisticated look, Per Buer and the Varnish Team continue to grow all facets of the business including its headcount, offices, annual revenue, customer base, and feature-set. It is hard to believe that it’s been almost
When it comes to web server software, Nginx has quickly been closing the gap set by rival Apache with an estimated 21% of the top one million busiest websites on the Internet today using Nginx software. Nginx performs all the
Varnish has been on the rise as one of the world’s leading reverse proxy servers with high profile sites like Wikipedia, Facebook, Twitter and Vimeo all using the Varnish software. In this article, we’ll break down the key specifics that
