CDN Scaling Challenges

Artur Bergman, CEO, Fastly

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One of my CDN colleagues just brought this video to my attention. You would think the CEO of a company would understand and characterize their competition better, especially when addressing a technically savvy crowd. His characterization of other CDNs using pure brute force hardware to achieve performance and scale is absurd on the face of it. If anything, it calls intelligent people's attention to Fastly's footprint and capacity shortcomings when compared to Tier 1 CDNs. There is no question that Fastly's approach fits a low-volume, technical-tweaker subset of the CDN market very well at the moment, but instead of concentrating on that strength, this purported technical presentation resorts to transparent, cheap, and inaccurate marketing hyperbole to slam their competition. Very disappointing.