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Re:Fastly S-1 by xfitm3 on Friday April 19, 2019 @10:48AM (#19700058)
Fastly’s major advantage is near instant CDN config changes, where Akamai can take an hour to push a new cdn config.
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Re:Fastly S-1 by tedk-42 on Monday April 29, 2019 @03:38AM (#19776533)
Definitely true - their instant deploys are very impressive from an operations point of view.

Small changes only take a few minutes to roll out on Akamai's network. Another commenter talked about Fastly's POP count. Akamai has far more as can be seen here: https://www.akamai.com/uk/en/solutions/intelligent-platform/...

No doubt having so many POPs (some probably legacy and slower to update) likely extend the update time.

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Re:Fastly S-1 by jsizzle on Friday April 19, 2019 @11:09PM (#19704617)
This is dated. Akamai pushes configs out in minutes now
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Re:Fastly S-1 by xfitm3 on Sunday April 21, 2019 @12:15AM (#19710508)
Not for all parameters. I pushed out a origin change on Akamai this year and it took about 75 minutes.
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Re:Fastly S-1 by madeofpalk on Friday April 19, 2019 @05:08PM (#19703013)
Is that an actual advantage though?
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Re:Fastly S-1 by notyourday on Friday April 19, 2019 @06:54PM (#19703680)
Yes, it is an amazing advantage, especially paired with configuration being a VCL.
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Re:Fastly S-1 by manigandham on Friday April 19, 2019 @06:24PM (#19703526)
Yes.
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