Content Delivery Networks
CDNs are intermediary servers that replicate read intensive data to provide better performance when user requests them. A close relative of CDNs is edge computing (e.g. gaming stations) where lots of computation is done directly close to the user. Types of CDNs 🟨– Mainly three types of CDNs: Highly distributed ones. Database based ones. Ad-hoc CDNs. Advantages and disadvantages 🟩 The main reason we use CDNs is to lower the value of latency: we are in fact bringing the data closer to the user. We have much less data in length to be transmitted. Yet we have some disadvantages too: ...