SearchContent delivery has become an important topic for anyone that provides services on the web.
Increased latency and low throughput severely impact the quality of experience, which may drive them to your competitors.
Because of globalization, it is likely that people from all around the world are consuming your online services. Geography plays a significant part in the experience: the further your users are removed from the origin, the higher the risk of latency.
A key takeaway from this chapter is that CDNs are responsible for the fact that online content is delivered so fast and with such stability.
Without CDNs, 4K video streams on your smart TV would be a lot more challenging.
Another takeaway is that it often makes sense to build your own CDN.
Varnish has some unique features that make it a suitable building block for private CDNs.
Moving from building blocks to a ready-to-use product, Varnish Enterprise is equipped to deliver enterprise-grade private CDN capabilities that are used by some of the biggest video streaming platforms, broadcasters and CDN providers in the world.
With the advent of 5G and the need to push the edge even closer to the user, Varnish is again in a unique position to offer caching and edge computing solutions via Varnish Software’s Varnish Edge Cloud solution.
Despite Varnish Software’s commitment to leverage its technology to build private CDN solutions, it also possible to use Varnish Cache to build your own CDN.
It all depends on the storage needs you have, and which VMODs your use case requires.
Not only does this wrap up chapter 9, we’ve also come full circle in the book. We’d like to invite you to turn the page, and read the closing notes of this book.