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Re:Google CDN Beta is already one of the fastest CDNs by sp332 on Monday April 18, 2016 @05:42PM (#11523367)
I can make a fast CDN too, if it doesn't have any users yet!
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Re:Google CDN Beta is already one of the fastest CDNs by rmdoss on Monday April 18, 2016 @06:19PM (#11523539)
I was going to say that :) When you are starting and have very few users, you should be fast.

It is very hard to keep it very fast when you have millions of free users, like CloudFlare does. That is impressive.

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Re:Google CDN Beta is already one of the fastest CDNs by wstrange on Monday April 18, 2016 @08:32PM (#11524107)
I'd assume Google knows a thing or two about scaling content
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Re:Google CDN Beta is already one of the fastest CDNs by jethro_tell on Monday April 18, 2016 @09:24PM (#11524313)
I don't doubt that and I'm excited to see some benchmarks once the service is in full operation mode. But until then, this makes it sounds like they magically beat out everyone else when the fact of the matter is that there is no load to measure.
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Re:Google CDN Beta is already one of the fastest CDNs by pbarnes_1 on Monday April 18, 2016 @06:26PM (#11523568)
Does Gmail count as enough users? ;)
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Re:Google CDN Beta is already one of the fastest CDNs by avita1 on Monday April 18, 2016 @09:10PM (#11524255)
It's not about the number of users, it's about the amount of unique content.
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Re:Google CDN Beta is already one of the fastest CDNs by amock on Monday April 18, 2016 @10:27PM (#11524523)
Gmail is all about unique content. That's why Gmail search is slower than web search.
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Re:Google CDN Beta is already one of the fastest CDNs by lallysingh on Monday April 18, 2016 @10:25PM (#11524513)
Every Gmail user had unique content - their mail
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Re:Google CDN Beta is already one of the fastest CDNs by pbarnes_1 on Tuesday April 19, 2016 @03:23PM (#11529464)
What I'm saying is this software stack runs every single Google property at this very moment in time.
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