Learn How to Stop Worrying and Build Your Own CDN
Learn How to Stop Worrying and Build Your Own CDN td { padding-right: 10px; } This post is adapted from a presentation delivered at nginx.conf 2016 by Jamie Panagos of Charter Communications. You can view a recording of the complete presentation on YouTube. Table of Contents Introduction 0:25 CDN Functions 0:50 IP Video CDN Performance Criteria 1:13 Why Build Your Own CDN? 1:25 Commercial CDNs Do a Pretty Darn Good Job 2:00 The Viewers are Coming 2:26 What is Driving the Growth? 3:09 All Content is Not Equal 4:13 The Impetus 5:16 Customization Insertion Points 5:52 The Decision 7:20 Success Criteria 9:48 How Might One Build a CDN? 10:37 Charter Implementation 12:55 CDN Topology 14:48 The CDN Stack 16:50 Why NGINX? 17:56 Results 19:16 Moore’s Law Cost Trending 20:10 What’s Next 22:19 To Cache or Not to Cache? 24:19 A Feature-Rich Edge 26:14 [ more… ]