Volterra, the three-year-old startup is one of the most interesting startups we’ve come across lately. Their business model is quite unique and its software stack extensive. The startup doesn’t fit neatly into one particular category or sector, but rather they
Years ago, it was Oracle vs Microsoft, Qwest vs MCI, and Akamai vs Limelight, the few of the many rivalries that entertained us. Today, it’s Cloudflare vs Fastly. Although both are civil towards each other in the public eye, make
The CDN industry continues to thrive, not only for publicly traded vendors but also for startups. In the last few weeks, there have been several interesting developments. We’ll summarize the latest industry updates, rumors, and observations below. First, let’s start
Limelight Networks has officially launched its edge computing product line. It joins Cloudflare, Fastly, StackPath, and CenturyLink in this new segment. In our industry, edge computing is defined as having the capabilities to ingest, process, store, and deliver data from
CenturyLink has been busy lately. The top two announcements coming from the company: 1) they’re now focused on edge computing and 2) the acquisition of Streamroot. If we put certain pieces of the puzzle together we can see a strategy
The Fastly IPO was a success for the entire industry. Fastly, along with Cloudflare, StackPath, and Limelight Networks are leading the efforts in edge computing innovation, providing developers the capabilities to build, deploy, and run apps at the edge. From
Tomorrow Fastly will go public breaking a 12-year dry spell for a CDN IPO. Limelight Networks went public in June 2007, nearly 1 year after AWS officially launched with S3, SQS, and EC2 in March 2006. The good news for Fastly,
Due to popular demand, we’re continuing with this series, publishing it quarterly. During our research efforts, we sometimes run into some interesting developments. When something happens to a startup in the CDN industry, we want to know about it, what
Over the last seven years, the technology stack (“stack”) in the CDN PoP has matured. The evolution of the stack can be broken down into three phases: basic, advanced, and intelligent. The basic stack involves caching and content delivery, video
Late last month, Verizon Digital Media Services (VDMS) introduced waflz, its new global CDN Web Application Firewall (WAF). A WAF acts as the first line of defense in network security by monitoring all incoming and outgoing network traffic, and deciding
At the end of November, Fastly announced the launch of Fastly Labs, “a hub of in-progress projects and experimental ideas we’re opening up to the developer community at large”, and shared three new projects with the community: Terrarium (a multi-language
AI, the Edge and the IoT Frontier IoT has shifted away from connecting simple everyday devices such as cameras, thermostats and light bulbs to smart assistants, smart appliances and live streaming baby monitors. The data gleaned from the new wave
Introduction to Envoy Envoy is an open source L7 edge and service proxy. It was developed as a high performance C++ distributed proxy intended for standalone services and applications, in addition to large microservices. The Envoy code was built to
Section, the next-gen edge PaaS, has built business from the start by targeting engineers who want to program at the edge. Similarly to a traditional CDN, Section’s platform sits between its client’s infrastructure and the end user to intercept traffic.
Earlier this week, StackPath announced StackPath EdgeEngine, a new serverless computing service designed to allow developers to run code at the edge without the need for a server, virtual machine or container. “The edge is the new frontier in cloud
