Delivering web content to users relies heavily on web caching, when browsers serve a website’s content from temporary storage locations called caches. The po...
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Streaming is the transport of recorded or live digital media, such as video or audio, over the internet. Some common forms of streaming content a...
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Serverless scripting is aptly named: it’s scripting, or computing, that occurs without a server. With serverless scripting, you upload JavaScri...
Greetings from Amsterdam, where a few lucky members of the StackPath team had a blast this week at the International Broadcasters Conference 2022 (IBC2022)!
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Sep 16 2022
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A content delivery network (CDN) is a geographically distributed cluster of nodes that operate together to serve web content. This web content ca...
We live in a digital world, and the need for low-latency delivery for site content comes with that. One of the biggest, if not the most significant, reasons yo...
Aug 31 2022
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Proxy caching allows a server to act as an intermediary between a user and a provider of web content. When a user accesses a website, proxies int...
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A point of presence (PoP) is a demarcation point, access point, or physical location at which two or more networks or communication devices ...