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From On-Demand to Live : Netflix Streaming to 100 Million Devices in Under 1 Minute
Netflix’s global live streaming platform powers millions of viewers with cloud-based ingest, custom live origin, Open Connect delivery, and real-time recommendations. This article explores the architecture, low-latency pipelines, adaptive bitrate streaming, and operational monitoring that ensure reliable, scalable, and synchronized live event experiences worldwide.
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AWS Introduces Flat-Rate Pricing to Eliminate Cloud Cost Overages
AWS introduces flat-rate pricing plans for website delivery and security, offering predictable monthly costs with no overages. Combining CloudFront CDN, DDoS protection, and more, tiers start from free to $1,000/month. This shift enables seamless scaling for applications and simplifies budgeting, empowering developers to innovate without fear of unexpected charges.
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Azure Front Door Outage: How a Single Control-Plane Defect Exposed Architectural Fragility
A recent 9-hour Azure Front Door (AFD) outage was triggered by a faulty control-plane configuration change that bypassed safety checks due to a software defect, leading to a massive blast radius and affecting M365 and Entra ID via Identity Coupling, exposing a critical architectural anti-pattern in centralized edge fabrics.
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How Locking, Saturation and CDN Network Issues Brought down Canva
The Canva engineering team recently published their post-mortem on the outage they experienced last November, detailing the API Gateway failure and the lessons learned during the incident.
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Amazon CloudFront Introduces Support for VPC Origins and Static IPs
Ahead of re:Invent, AWS has announced that Amazon CloudFront now supports Anycast static IPs, providing a dedicated set of IP addresses for connecting to all CloudFront edge locations worldwide. Additionally, the new VPC origins feature enables developers to designate private resources within a VPC as origins, eliminating the need for public IP addresses or internet connectivity.
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Over 100K+ Sites Hit by Polyfill.io Supply Chain Attack
E-Commerce security firm Sansec unveiled a new supply chain attack affecting the Polyfill JS service when accessed through a number of CDNs hosting it. According to Sansec, over 100K sites were hit. The original author of the service, Andrew Betts, suggested removing Polyfill from any sites using it.
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Building a Dedicated Platform for Frontend Developers at the Norwegian Government
Recognizing the challenges faced by frontend developers, the Norwegian Labour and Welfare Administration decided to build a dedicated platform to address their needs. It offers services like a CDN, an observability stack for monitoring and debugging, and feature management using Unleash. The platform is treated as a product to drive adoption and improve the developer experience.
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Cloudflare, Google and AWS Disclose HTTP/2 Zero-Day Vulnerability
On October 10th, Cloudflare, Google, and AWS disclosed a novel zero-day vulnerability attack known as the "HTTP/2 Rapid Reset." This attack exploits a weakness in the HTTP/2 protocol to generate enormous Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks, up to almost 400 million requests per second (rps).
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Cloudflare Servers Share IP Addresses for Egress Traffic
Cloudflare recently detailed how it manages its servers' egress traffic using "soft-unicast ". Soft-unicast allows multiple servers to share a single IPv4 address for their egress traffic while redirecting the response packets to the correct physical server. It provides a scalable, cost-efficient solution for Cloudflare to offer various products that require tagged egress IP addresses.
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Cloudflare Releases Cache Reserve in Open Beta
Recently, Cloudflare announced the open beta of Cache Reserve, which provides a way to serve all static content from Cloudflare’s global cache persistently. It is a large, persistent data store implemented on top of R2.
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Cloudflare Previews Globally Distributed Queues without Egress Fees
Cloudflare recently announced the private beta of Cloudflare Queues, a message queuing service that allows applications to send and receive messages using Cloudflare Workers. The new service provides at-least once message delivery, supports batching of messages, and does not charge bandwidth egress fees.
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Cloudflare Previews Serverless Database D1 Adding Transactions
Cloudflare recently unveiled more details about the serverless database D1, the new service supporting SQLite to store and query relational data globally with low latency. D1 is the first SQL database from the content delivery network company and will support transactions.
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Cloudflare R2 Storage Generally Available
Cloudflare recently announced the general availability of R2 storage, an S3-compatible object storage without egress charges. The new service provides dynamic functionalities integrating with Cloudflare Workers.
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Amazon CloudFront Supports HTTP/3
AWS recently announced that CloudFront distributions support HTTP version 3 (HTTP/3) requests over QUIC. HTTP/3 is optional and provides faster response times and enhanced security over previous HTTP versions.
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Google Cloud Introduces Media CDN for Content Delivery
Google Cloud recently announced the general availability of Media CDN, a content delivery network targeted to media and entertainment companies. The streaming platform supports advertising insertion and AI/ML analytics.