What Your CDN Won't Tell You: Optimizing a News Website for Speed and Stability
Julian Dunn, SecondMarket Holdings, Inc.; Blake Crosby, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
In this paper, the authors discuss their experiences implementing, operating, and optimizing a content delivery network for Canada’s largest news website, that of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). The site receives over one million unique visitors per day. Although CBC uses the Akamai Aqua Platform (formerly EdgeSuite) as its content delivery network of choice, the lessons described here are generally applicable to any infrastructure fronted by a CDN.
USENIX is committed to Open Access to the research presented at our events. Papers and proceedings are freely available to everyone once the event begins. Any video, audio, and/or slides that are posted after the event are also free and open to everyone. Support USENIX and our commitment to Open Access.
BibTeX
@inproceedings {180352,
author = {Julian Dunn and Blake Crosby},
title = {What Your {CDN} Won{\textquoteright}t Tell You: Optimizing a News Website for Speed and Stability},
booktitle = {26th Large Installation System Administration Conference (LISA 12)},
year = {2012},
isbn = {978-931971-97-3},
address = {San Diego, CA},
pages = {195--201},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/lisa12/technical-sessions/presentation/dunn},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = dec
}
