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My knowledge of CDNs is limited but I assume that Moore's law will make CDNs obsolete because you will be able to efficiently and cheaply host your own data but
by mrkramer 5y ago
My knowledge of CDNs is limited but I assume that Moore's law will make CDNs obsolete because you will be able to efficiently and cheaply host your own data but then again webmasters will want to outsource it so they don't have to manage and maintain it.
- GauntletWizard 5y agoNot to be rude, but you never understood how CDNs we're helpful, then, because they were about round trips and latency, which Moore's law does not help with. The point of cdms was to reduce the number of distinct resource objects that your browser requested, and that will continue to be good advice in many situations.
- mrkramer 5y agoI said that my knowledge of CDNs is limited but yea I understand that CDN is similar to edge computing. My logic was Moore's law will make everything so cheap that CDNs wouldn't be as needed as they use to be. >The point of cdns was to reduce the number of distinct resource objects that your browser requested, and that will continue to be good advice in many situations. In the world of optimized software and computational power abundance(both CPU and bandwidth) this shouldn't be a problem.
- GauntletWizard 5y agoYou're still thinking about this wrong. This is not about bandwidth or CPU time - It's about the time it takes to communicate. Moore's law will make running a CDN cheaper, but it won't make sending a request across the globe any faster.