section.io, the next-gen content delivery platform we’ve written about several times here on Bizety, has just completed an impressive Series A funding round of $5.5 million. The company launched its product three years ago when it moved HQ from Sydney,
Earlier this year, Netflix hit a milestone of 100 million users worldwide–a massive user base that now consumes 125 million hours of streaming content per day from their own CDN. Delivering content at this scale presents a significant challenge, one
As part of our ongoing series of videos that highlight challenges in distributed computing, we’d like to summarize the data points from Patrick Shuff, an Production Engineer on Facebook’s Traffic Team, on how they scale their load balancing infrastructure to
NGINX Plus is now available on Amazon Web Services (AWS) via AWS Cloud Quickstart, and can be accessed on the AWS Community Quick Starts landing page and the AWS Quickstart Github repository.
In addition to cultivating his sophisticated look, Per Buer and the Varnish Team continue to grow all facets of the business including its headcount, offices, annual revenue, customer base, and feature-set. It is hard to believe that it’s been almost
Since its inception in 2001, HAproxy has grown to become one of the most widely used open source load balancers on the market. It was designed specifically as a high availability load balancer and proxy server for TCP and HTTP-based
When it comes to web server software, Nginx has quickly been closing the gap set by rival Apache with an estimated 21% of the top one million busiest websites on the Internet today using Nginx software. Nginx performs all the
Google has officially launched a customer facing CDN which they call “Google Cloud CDN”. We say customer facing because Google has always had an internal CDN to deliver their own content, including Youtube. The question begs itself, is Google a
The latest CDN Ecosystem Diagram reflects the addition of the “Cloud ADC” segment, which includes Lagrange Systems, Avi Networks and Appcito. The Cloud ADC companies offer Application Acceleration, Load Balancing, Application Security, Application Scaling, Continuous Deployment, DDoS Mitigation and WAF.
Avi Networks is a networking start-up offering SDN+NFV software solutions that run on bare-metal hardware. They have raised $33M from Greylock Partners, Menlo Ventures and other top VC’s. Their mission is to disrupt the enterprise networking sector with its virtualization
