December 14, 2019

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Orchestrating multihomed cloud services for a fast and resilient edge

Orchestrating multihomed cloud services for a fast and resilient edge

With members in every corner of the world, LinkedIn has built services around six CDNs, numerous PoPs, and three DNS platforms. Samir Jafferali explains how LinkedIn uses big data to steer DNS intelligently, optimizes the CDNs for performance, mitigates DDoSes, and measures metrics using RUM and synthetic monitoring and shares best practices that edge teams of all sizes can benefit from.
Talk Title Orchestrating multihomed cloud services for a fast and resilient edge
Speakers Samir Jafferali (Linkedin)
Conference O’Reilly Velocity Conference
Conf Tag Build Resilient Distributed Systems
Location San Jose, California
Date June 20-22, 2017
URL Talk Page
Slides Talk Slides
Video

With members in every corner of the world, LinkedIn has built services around six CDNs, numerous PoPs, and three DNS platforms. Samir Jafferali explains how LinkedIn uses big data to steer DNS intelligently, optimizes the CDNs for performance, mitigates DDoSes, and measures metrics using RUM and synthetic monitoring and shares best practices that edge teams of all sizes can benefit from.

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