Re:What is a CDN? How do CDNs work?
by nosequel on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @10:32AM
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One of the reasons Fastly got used by online newspapers was their fast purge. No newspaper wanted to use CDNs for breaking news if purging took 20 minutes to complete. It was one of the advantages Fastly had that allowed them to get customers from other CDNs. According to https://developer.fastly.com/learning/concepts/purging/ they do single-object purges in 150ms globally.
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Re:What is a CDN? How do CDNs work?
by thakoppno on Wednesday February 08, 2023 @11:07AM
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> It was one of the advantages Fastly had that allowed them to get customers from other CDNs.
That’s a neat fact and perhaps an advantage usually reserved for new entrants into an entrenched market. Presumably Fastly benefited, at least in some part, from technological innovation that existing companies could not apply as easily.