Three of the best: George Michaelson
This year, George Michaelson touched on topics ranging from news to explainers. Here are three of George’s best.
Tag: CDN
Seven years in the life of Hypergiants’ off-nets
Guest Post: Google, Facebook and Netflix have invested heavily in deploying servers deep inside other networks over the past seven years.
Akamai shows support is key to growing IPv6
Akamai has been a leading proponent and driver of IPv6 adoption over the last decade.
Dissecting the performance of production QUIC
Guest Post: Study demonstrates large differences between Google, Facebook, and Cloudflare’s QUIC performance profiles.
Opinion: Why is this unusual?
There are benefits in open disclosure to improve the robustness of Internet services.
Another chapter in the decline of the traditional telcos
Deregulation and the rise of CDNs has some telcos questioning the future of international transit.
Opinion: CDNs and centrality
Are there lessons in recent outages?
No, the Internet was not ‘down’
The 8 June 2021 disruption wasn’t an infrastructure issue.
Building an open source anycast CDN
Guest Post: A bit of free time and a desire to experiment led high school student Nate Sales to construct an open source anycast CDN.
How critical are submarine cables to end-users?
Guest Post: A common assumption is that popular resources tend to be hosted locally, and submarine cables are for backend traffic. Is this accurate?