What is a CDN & why Developers should Care about using one • Artur Bergman • GOTO 2016

This presentation was recorded at GOTO Stockholm 2016 http://gotosthlm.com Artur Bergman - Founder & CEO of Fastly ABSTRACT • What are the challenges of using a CDN and how you can overcome them to secure and accelerate your application. • How Fastly is built differently to be able to deliver a fantastic developer experience. Modern applications can benefit from using a CDN, but CDNs have long been the realm of operations and treated as an afterthought. This talk describes the benefits of using a CDN and an overview of how applications can take advantage of a CDN. [...] TIMECODES 0:00 Introduction 0:29 Artur Bergman 0:55 2008 @ Wikia 3:37 Caching reverse proxy 3:53 Big awesome cache 5:08 Inside-out cache 8:16 160 Gbps DDOS 12:19 Prince died 14:33 Do things at the edge 15:24 developer tools 16:17 Dynamic Site Acceleration 21:41 Instant config 21:53 Instant logfiles 26:27 Fallacies of distributed systems 27:01 Technologies Download slides and read the full abstract here: https://gotosthlm.com/2016/sessions/21 https://twitter.com/GOTOcon https://www.linkedin.com/company/goto- https://www.instagram.com/goto_con https://www.facebook.com/GOTOConferences #CDN #Fastly #DDOS #DeveloperTools #Config #ReverseProxy #ArturBergman CHANNEL MEMBERSHIP BONUS Join this channel to get early access to videos & other perks: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCs_tLP3AiwYKwdUHpltJPuA/join Looking for a unique learning experience? Attend the next GOTO conference near you! Get your ticket at https://gotopia.tech Sign up for updates and specials at https://gotopia.tech/newsletter SUBSCRIBE TO OUR CHANNEL - new videos posted almost daily. https://www.youtube.com/user/GotoConferences/?sub_confirmation=1