CDN

29 August, 2009

Faster & more flexible CDN integration

More details coming soon.

Related links: http://wimleers.com/tags/bachelor-thesis http://drupal.org/project/cdn http://drupal.org/project/episodes http://fileconveyor.org/

Faster & more flexible CDN integration

View more presentations from Wim Leers.

The demo of the File Conveyor daemon in the presentation (slide 28 on Slideshare, slide 12 in the Keynote file). This is a version with a higher compression, if you want the lossless version (about 200 MB), contact me.

Video:

http://www.archive.org/details/FrontEndPerformance-MakingDrupalLightningFast

Conference

DrupalCon Paris 2009

Date

09/03/2009 - 09:00

Location

Paris

Video

http://www.archive.org/details/FrontEndPerformance-MakingDrupalLightningFast

Duration

25 minutes

File attachments

DrupalCon Paris — Faster & more flexible CDN integration.pdf

DrupalCon Paris — Faster & more flexible CDN integration.key

26 August, 2009

Key Properties of a CDN

In this very brief article, I highlight the key properties of CDNs: what differentiates them and which technical implications you should keep in mind.

A content delivery network (CDN) is a collection of web servers distributed across multiple locations to deliver content more efficiently to users. The server selected for delivering content to a specific user is typically based on a measure of network proximity.

It is extremely hard to decide which CDN to use. In fact, by just looking at a CDN’s performance, it is close to impossible (see “Content Owners Struggling To Compare One CDN To Another” and “How Is CDNs Network Performance For Streaming Measured?”)!