What your CDN won't tell you: optimizing a news website for speed and stability

  • Authors:

  • Julian Dunn;Blake Crosby

  • Affiliations:

  • Second Market Holdings, Inc.;Canadian Broadcasting Corporation

  • Venue:
  • lisa'12 Proceedings of the 26th international conference on Large Installation System Administration: strategies, tools, and techniques
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

In this paper, the authors discuss their experiences implementing, operating, and optimizing a content delivery network for Canada's largest news website, that of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC). The site receives over one million unique visitors per day. Although CBC uses the Akamai Aqua Platform (formerly EdgeSuite) as its content delivery network of choice, the lessons described here are generally applicable to any infrastructure fronted by a CDN.