Improving Performance on the Internet

  • Authors:
  • Tom Leighton

  • Affiliations:
  • Akamai Technologies

  • Venue:
  • Queue - Scalable Web Services
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

When it comes to achieving performance, reliability, and scalability for commercial-grade Web applications, where is the biggest bottleneck? In many cases today, we see that the limiting bottleneck is the middle mile, or the time data spends traveling back and forth across the Internet, between origin server and end user.