Collaborate Disseminate
Cloudfront supports adding external origins, i.e. domains that are not S3 buckets or ALBs. This led me to wonder whether adding domains that are not owned by the entity as an origin could allow for intercept the request payload, and potent… Continue reading Can a Man-in-the-Middle-Attack be achieved by adding a cloudfront distribution origin of a domain not owned by me?
Any PaaS/shared hosting company which I came across offers its customers to protect their websites from DDoS via security-oriented CDNs such as CloudFlare or CloudFront which act as a proxy distributing the content serving via various mach… Continue reading Is the idea of a hosting provider with built-in DDoS protection plausible?
I recently worked with a client whose large e-commerce site was hosted with a popular cloud-based commerce solution. Its business was growing rapidly into new geographic markets, and it was not satisfied with the embedded content delivery network (eCDN) that was bundled with the cloud solution. We demonstrated that stacking CDNs — adding Akamai’s Ion solution on top of the eCDN — could significantly improve performance as well as provide the client with much greater control over its delivery configuration Continue reading Stacking CDNs for Improved Performance and Security
Over the past 20 years, we’ve seen a lot of growth at Akamai. When I started at Akamai, we used to have traffic peaks of almost 200 Mbps. From that fledgling startup, Akamai has now grown to such a scale that we almost doubled network capacity in 2020 … Continue reading Maintaining an Energy-Efficient Edge Platform
Over the past 20 years, we’ve seen a lot of growth at Akamai. When I started at Akamai, we used to have traffic peaks of almost 200 Mbps. From that fledgling startup, Akamai has now grown to such a scale that we almost doubled network capacity in 2020 and were able to serve peaks of almost 200 Tbps. In short, just like the internet, Akamai has undergone quite the evolution. But as we’ve grown, so have our environmental impacts. In fact, the internet as a whole is responsible for more than 2% of global emissions, having the same impact as the airline industry. Our online streaming, learning, working, shopping, and playing habits have all started to add up. Continue reading Maintaining an Energy-Efficient Edge Platform
I am doing some bug hunting. I inserted a malicious payload into a request. But I am not sure if the response is from CloudFlare or the origin. Are there special headers which help me to distinguish the origin from the CDN? I always see th… Continue reading How to know if the response is from the CDN and not the origin?
Agility has proven to be a key weapon in the publisher arsenal during the pandemic. Agile firms — particularly news publishers — that switched directions or added digital services quickly reaped the rewards of new readers and viewers, even if the aud… Continue reading How DevOps Tools Can Help Publishers Thrive
Agility has proven to be a key weapon in the publisher arsenal during the pandemic. Agile firms — particularly news publishers — that switched directions or added digital services quickly reaped the rewards of new readers and viewers, even if the audience boost didn’t result in a similar increase in revenues for ad-based services in the short term. Continue reading How DevOps Tools Can Help Publishers Thrive
In my previous post, we discussed two new image formats: High-Efficiency Image File (HEIF) and AV1 Image File (AVIF). In this article, we’ll take a closer look at two emerging video formats built on the same foundations. Continue reading Understanding Emerging Video Formats
In my previous post, we discussed two new image formats: High-Efficiency Image File (HEIF) and AV1 Image File (AVIF). In this article, we’ll take a closer look at two emerging video formats built on the same foundations.
The post Understanding Emerging… Continue reading Understanding Emerging Video Formats