Tag: cdn

  • Fastly Global CDN Disruption

    Fastly is one of the major CDN vendors globally. As a regular consumer you wouldn’t be aware of their service, until a failure hits. Today the service faced a configuration issue, that apparently hit global pages like NYTimes and Bloomberg, but also Amazon, Reddit and Twitter, as reported in multiple sources. The issue is reported…

  • AWS announces CloudFront Functions

    AWS announced general availability of “CloudFront Functions“. The product allows deploying lightweight functions on the edge of CloudFront’s CDN deployment, bringing logic close to the end user. After CloudFlare initiated a trend with their Workers, AWS is the third major cloud player to enter the space with this offering. The purpose of such an architecture…

  • CloudFront and Lambda at the Edge

    AWS OfficeHours with Woodrow Arrington and David Brown, both Senior Product Managers on the AWS CloudFront Team. They discuss the benefits of CDN technology and use-cases of Lambda@Edge. The video touches security related considerations.

  • AWS CloudFront Monitoring Update

    AWS CloudFront Monitoring Update: AWS released an early & small Christmas Gift to their CloudFront Customers. CloudFront now supports eight more metrics to monitor content distribution. These include: Cache Hit Rate via HTTP POST and PUT requests, via the percentage of all cacheable requests for which CloudFront served the content from its cache, including errors…

  • Fastly files for IPO

    Crunchbase has a First Look At The Fastly IPO Filing — news.crunchbase.com/news/first-look-at-the-fastly-ipo-filing/

  • AWS CloudFront announces 3 new features

    Per Newsletter hat AWS heute morgen folgenden neuen Features angekündigt: Cookie Support: Personalisierter Content kann am sofort auch per Cookie identifiziert werden. Zweck dieses Features ist es, flexibler mit Origin-Anwendungen zu interagieren. CloudFront bietet jetzt auch “Preisklassen” an, die entsprechend den Kunden- und Zielgruppenanforderungen auch billiger sein können. So lässt sich ein Mapping einstellen, das…

  • Performance: CDN Support

    Für bessere Verfügbarkeit und Performance läuft das meisste von diesem Blog jetzt auf einem CDN…