What Your CDN Won't Tell You: Optimizing a News Website for Speed and Stability
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Authors:
Julian Dunn, SecondMarket Holdings, Inc.; Blake Crosby, Canadian Broadcasting Corporation
Abstract:
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.
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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 = {Presented as part of the 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}},
}
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