CDNs in High-Performance System Design

Delivering fast and reliable content is more important than ever. Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) are a crucial component of high-performance system design, helping to ensure that your users have a seamless experience no matter where they're located. In this video, we'll take a deep dive into the world of CDNs and explore the key concepts and strategies you need to know to design and implement effective CDN solutions.

Chapters -
00:00 - Intro
01:31 - How do CDNs work?
01:51 - Push and Pull CDN
02:20 - Advantages and Disadvantages
03:36 - When should you not use CDNs?

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[technogeek]

If we are designing a product listing page then CDN will fit for product related details including images videos and reviews but product pricing and stock availability should be excluded in such cases.

[altruistization]

It is also important to mention that the initial domain name resolution of the server is done to the CDN server, which in turn internally calls the origina server.

[quiccloud]

Really nice comparison between push and pull CDNs, like ours, with a good explanation on advantages in and disadvantages. Thanks

[PremSai-wdco]

What is the answer of the last question is it between the load balancer and product listing service

[sumeetmultani]

All the images, css, JavaScript and html of the page will be cached by CDN. Primarily the use case is a classic fit for CDN since there are global users who would to browse the page within ms rather than seconds. Lastly CDNs would not cache payment pages and specific user content such as personal user data due to regulations.

[deekshaprusty]

Is it right ? - After the product listing service and parallel to the DB.
Is distributed DB considered CDN?

[prashantchamoli]

Thanks for the amazing video
I have one question : Although we have stored our static content in CDN server, the backend call to fetch the data (REST APIs) would still go to the origin server right? So how does it benefit us in that case?

[satish]

Can you explain what is Dynamic Content Delivery

I have question regarding CDN.

CDN associated with only static content right? Like a HTML File, Audio Files, Video Files Etc where user can access these file from their nearest location

Can CDN be also be applicable for dynamic content? For example Status of Air Craft being watched from India when it is flying in USA and assume that the data center in USA

As per my understanding, for dynamic content there is no concept of CDN right? In this example the data should come from the DB server from USA . Basically wherever you watch in the world, the status of the flight across the world it has to come from USA .

[rajdave]

Thanks a lot
Wow
We want more such videos ❤❤❤❤