Internet traffic growth: Why platforms are critical for developers
summary
Argues that rapid traffic growth and global 4k live streaming would leave core networks short by several orders of magnitude and so edge computing clouds are critical to scale real apps. Cites adoption-ready technologies HTTP/2 and QUIC, a TLS model that assumes ubiquitous encryption, DevOps velocity as a deployment requirement, and Akamai’s State of the Internet report as the data source. Calls for platforms that fuse infrastructure and application software to meet latency, scale, and security needs.
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chapters (5)
- 0:00Start
- 0:09ENORMOUS
- 1:15SECURITY
- 1:28ON AGILITY
- 4:29Learn more and download the State of the Internet report
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