Accelerate Your Internal IT Processes

Your IT team is the lifeblood of your company, and their ability to efficiently manage your infrastructure depends entirely on the level of support you provide. The best way to do that is to always make sure they have the right tool for the job. Let’s take a look at how Varnish can help accelerate your IT processes, streamlining your team’s workload, cutting unnecessary costs, and maximizing the performance of your internal systems.

The Fastly CDN outage on June 8th, which took down a major part of the internet, including popular websites and services, such as Reddit, Spotify, Twitch, Stack Overflow, GitHub, gov.uk, Hulu, HBO Max, Quora, PayPal, Vimeo, Shopify, Stripe, and news outlets CNN, The Guardian, The New York Times, BBC and Financial Times, taught everyone four important things: 

Both live and VoD streaming pose challenges ranging from latency to uptime - these issues pose no surprise but are also opportunities for getting creative in taking control of your own streaming infrastructure. At the heart of your solution is your CDN.

Now that we’re starting to move beyond the hype around 5G and dig into what its introduction and eventual ubiquity will mean, we can see immediate and obvious benefits around fairly standard performance improvements, such as faster data speeds. Users will be able to, for example, download video faster on their mobile devices. This is great, but it’s not the seismic shift we’ve been promised.