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Content Delivery Network (CDN)

Posted on November 25, 2018 by Ernesto Garbarino

A Content Delivery Network (CDN) distributes content (e.g. static data such as HTML, PNG images, videos, applications, etc) from an origin server to a location closer to the user’s region in order to reduce latency and bandwidth costs. It may work both on a passive cache-aside basis but also as an active on-push system.