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I don’t understand the connection between 1 and 2. What happened to the relationship between Apple and Akamai?
by wodenokoto 4y ago
I don’t understand the connection between 1 and 2.
What happened to the relationship between Apple and Akamai?
- FabHK 4y agoSorry, I left something out. The authors mention earlier in the lecture that > [The algorithm (Consistent Hashing)] has real applications [and] gave birth to Akamai, which to this day is a major player in the Internet. [...] (Quantitatively, Akamai serves 10-30% of all internet traffic, and has a market cap ≈ $19B.) This makes the rejection notice so funny.
- c7b 4y agoThe rejection notice is funny now, but to researchers whose careers depend on publications, such unfounded rejections are anything but.
- CrimsonRain 4y agoConsistent hashing is needed for cashing/CDN.