New technologies are ratcheting up consumer expectations of their e-commerce experiences. For example, China’s Singles Day has taken the excitement to new levels, with major retailers and brands hiring major global stars as spokespeople, streaming exclusive live video or interactive events. And the effort has paid off, with November 11, 2019 (the last Singles Day) yielding a whopping 58 billion dollars in a 24-hour period, dwarfing the US-based Cyber-Five e-commerce holiday, which generated just 28 billion dollars just a few weeks later.

Technology has breathed new life into - and in many ways completely changed various industries. While some industries have disappeared, others have expanded, adding to brick-and-mortar empires. iGaming is one such industry, emerging to meet a massive consumer demand for online casino and e-sports betting action. The gaming and betting industry is constantly changing to keep up both with technical innovation and legal and regulatory requirements. A middle ground where performance technology and automated regulatory tools meet is where things stand today.

If you’re familiar at all with Varnish, you know it improves content delivery performance by storing a copy of your content in cache, and every request thereafter is fulfilled by the cached content.

The proliferation of massive content delivery - especially high-resource content like streaming video - has made network traffic jams quite real, meaning that bandwidth-boosting congestion control technology is always playing catch-up to make sure that end-users never experience the kinds of bottlenecks that damage the user experience.