Understanding how to improve the performance of your web app or OTT stream within specific geographies or on specific networks is no small matter. There are many variables that can impact that performance. But of all of the things you can do, reachability to your CDN(s) is perhaps the most important. Seventy five percent of […]
Building your own streaming CDN was famously a $100 million problem 10 years ago. However, over time technologies have evolved, and the use cases for commercial CDNs have become more clear. Specifically, commercial CDNs do not fit all use cases. Some examples of where CDNs are not always a perfect fit include: Long Tail Catalogs – content […]
Tsunamis are bad. They destroy property and can injure people. Video Buffering is bad. It can make people stop watching your IP Video. What do these things have in common? Let’s look at how people have commonly avoided tsunamis and see what lessons we can learn. A tsunami warning system (TWS) is used to detect […]
Answer: nothing. Except the pessimist is better informed. This old Russian joke is funny because it has some truth to it. The pessimist understands that things will fail. The pessimist is eventually always right, since eventually everything fails. There is a reason that most good system admins and operations professionals are pessimists. Everything eventually fails. […]
Let’s face it; global brands just have a different set of problems than the rest of us. And it’s the top global brands that have figured out something that the rest of the world has not figured out. That’s how they have gotten to be on top. I was reading an excellent annual report that […]
Alerts are the core component of an operations team (or ‘DevOps’ if we want to be fashionable). The ability to provide precise, immediate issue notification and to enable forensic investigation is a key ingredient to resolving things in a timely manner, and those alerts must reflect what the end user would be experiencing as much […]
(this article was originally published on NextGen Content Delivery) In sports, the only statistic that really matters is who scores the most points by the end of the game. On the Internet, the only statistic that matters is speed. There is an evolution happening in content delivery optimization. Just as network performance management (NPM) and […]
The inevitability of IP Video is upon us. Yahoo broadcast an NFL game last year to much fanfare, and now this year we are going to have NFL on Twitter. Twitter – a primarily mobile experience! As you can see – IP Video consumption is growing like wildfire. This is problematic for the CDNs and […]
If Mr. Ali is right (and who would tell him he’s not) then ROBLOX gives wings to its users over 20 million times a month. ROBLOX is the premier user-generated online gaming platform powering the imagination of tens of millions of monthly visitors and maintaining over 15 million active games across computers, tablets, phones, Xbox, […]
Fungibility is the property of a commodity that makes it capable of mutual substitution. In other words, some product or service is fungible if given any two of said products you can swap them out for each other. So, any barrel of crude oil (of a specific grade) is swappable with any other barrel of […]
