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I would have like to see some technical notes in there. It almost comes across like a glorified sales pitch for two products! First Joel says that they don't d
by bprater 18y ago
I would have like to see some technical notes in there. It almost comes across like a glorified sales pitch for two products!
First Joel says that they don't deliver static files and that edge caching won't help. And then they swap out some IPs, cuddle up to Akamai and bam -- suddenly the Internet delivers.
- wmf 18y agoMy impression is that Joel has no idea how this Akamai IPA thing works; he is treating it as magic. I would never buy a service that is advertised as magic, though. There is a little technical stuff here: http://www.akamai.com/dl/feature_sheets/FS_IPA.pdf http://www.akamai.com/dl/feature_sheets/FS_IPA.pdf It looks like a fancy TCP reverse proxy. I wonder if it's based on the MIT RON project.