Spotify, the Freemium streaming music company, has over 200 million users with 96 million of those paying customers with around 40 million tracks available. Spotify has recently added podcasts to its streaming platform. These numbers make it the world’s biggest
Introduction to Maglev Maglev is Google’s custom network load balancer, which is used within all its data centers and operates at the distributed packet-level. Google is of course a significant source of global Internet traffic, which provides hundreds of user-facing
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
Twitter’s Hadoop System is at the core of its data platform, providing vast storage for analytics of its user actions and allowing its infrastructure to scale whenever needed. Twitter’s large Hadoop clusters number among the world’s largest; its Hadoop file
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
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
On Wednesday, Google introduced a new DDoS protection service called Cloud Armor. In a blog post from Google Cloud Platform (GCP), the company rolled it out alongside several new security services, including new VPC Service Controls in Google Cloud Platform
Last month, Google announced the release of a new congestion control algorithm, TCP BBR (Bottleneck Bandwidth and Round-trip propagation time), for Google Cloud Platform. By eschewing loss-based congestion control for a system that considers the speed at which the network
Live from NAB: Google and AWS are selling CDN services to a handful of companies for $0.002/GB ($2/TB). In other words, they are practically giving away CDN services to capture high-volume CDN media accounts. Google is aggressively pursing these accounts
General Electric is moving 9,000 applications to the cloud over the next three years and cutting back on the data center count from 30 to single digits. Disney has 500 projects in the cloud including customer facing applications, development, QA,
Is there an innovation so disruptive that it poses an existential threat to the CDN business model? So disruptive that it can implode an entire sector in one year? Fei-Fei Li and Google have spoken, and in doing so they
The free video-hosting platform Vimeo, has adopted Multi-Regional Google Cloud Storage, one of the new storage classes that Google Cloud Platform (GCP) recently unveiled during its major refresh of Google Cloud Storage platform. Crucially, GCP has been integrated with Fastly’s
Varnish Software Releases Open Source “Hitch” for SSL Termination Varnish doesn’t natively support TLS/SSL, so it has turned to a dedicated TLS terminator to end those connections. Hitch is a standalone piece of software provided by Varnish Software, which it
Every CDN has one overriding goal in common, and that is to change the world through technology. It’s also interesting to note that every CDN has a different approach to solving the same challenges when it comes to site performance,
Amazon has been in the CDN business for a few years now. They have proven themselves, and are making headway in the CDN industry. Microsoft is officially in the CDN business with its Azure CDN, delivering content from 29 POPs
