Great Content! Loved it! Its always a blast when learning new features of CDN, I've been accustomed with Akamai CDN and have been amazed time and time again since I first learnt about it, by how significant role it plays in any system design scenario, and how it should be utilized to the fullest (also with caution) to minimize load on your origin servers.
There's a name for this pattern, due to which multi-level caching is required. It's called a thundering herd problem. Based on scenarios, multiple ways we can handle this. For example, Facebook uses Memcached to cache data, but it also configures some threshold, so that not all requests, goes to DB. It can also be done using a Server director pattern.
If a CDN utilizes independent edge servers, the amount of content that can be cached is limited. Isn't this limitation could lead to frequent evictions, ultimately undermining the primary purpose of the cache?
Hey Arpit! The availability of edge servers is limited by the availability of the shield servers. Further the geographical "nearness" is impacted since multiple edge servers map to single shield server. How do they get around this?
Thanks!
You missed talking push vs pull type of CDN
Great video. Thank you for sharing the link to the engineering blog as well. Your video made it easier to go through the blog.
Where did he share the link in description? I don't find it.
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Awesome Content as always! ❤️
Great Content! Loved it! Its always a blast when learning new features of CDN, I've been accustomed with Akamai CDN and have been amazed time and time again since I first learnt about it, by how significant role it plays in any system design scenario, and how it should be utilized to the fullest (also with caution) to minimize load on your origin servers.
Man you have such an excellent way of putting up things!
Thank you 🙌
Hi Arpit ,
Can you please the prerequisites to fallow your provided video as beginner
There's a name for this pattern, due to which multi-level caching is required. It's called a thundering herd problem.
Based on scenarios, multiple ways we can handle this. For example, Facebook uses Memcached to cache data, but it also configures some threshold, so that not all requests, goes to DB.
It can also be done using a Server director pattern.
If a CDN utilizes independent edge servers, the amount of content that can be cached is limited. Isn't this limitation could lead to frequent evictions, ultimately undermining the primary purpose of the cache?
where is the engineering blog please
Sir
we say that video is just combination of images and sound
but what about gif?
how gif are made programmatically?
Can the edge server pull and cache contents from nearest edge server if needed?
Hey Arpit! The availability of edge servers is limited by the availability of the shield servers. Further the geographical "nearness" is impacted since multiple edge servers map to single shield server. How do they get around this?
Shield servers are localised for a set of local edge servers.
If sheild servers are down edge can always fallback to origin.
As a final year student, what subjects do I need to have a good grasp on to best understand these concepts of system design.
does the structure of edge + shield + origin form kind of binary tree? otherwise sheild servers will be overloaded for viral content
I'm still wondering why your subscribers are so low, your channel deserves more.
Haha. Even I wonder the same 😅 I have covered some really interesting and useful topics.
The Internet is beyond my understanding 🙃
That's cause he doesn't share the original link of the blog in the description.
Did they use rust ?
Can we leverage CDN functionality in microservice architecture ?
So long as the service is user facing
thanks for the content :]
Amazing content.
Awesome 😎