13 Design a Content Distribution Network
This chapter covers
- Discussing the pros, cons, and unexpected situations
- Satisfying user requests with frontend metadata storage architecture
- Designing a basic distributed storage system
A CDN (Content Distribution Network) is a cost-effective and geographically distributed file storage service that is designed to replicate files across its multiple data centers to serve static content to a large number of geographically distributed users quickly, serving each user from the data center that can serve them fastest. There are secondary benefits, such as fault-tolerance, allowing users to be served from other data centers if any particular data center is unavailable. Let’s discuss a design for a CDN, which ...
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