Month: September 2018
The dominance of the content distribution network, and what it means
/Geoff Huston, chief scientist for APNIC, spoke to the Internet Society of Canada yesterday. His speech is vitally important for understanding the Internet of today. The picture is dark. You ought to know about it. Houston’s thesis is that the Internet has come to be dominated by very few content distribution networks (CDNs) […]
Read more »What is Google’s business, exactly?
/Castle Howard The revelation of the political views of Google’s senior management after the Trump election comes as no surprize. They are all Bay Area liberals. What is odd is how much Google appears as a Guardian institution, not a business. This was revealed by the leak of the video of a collective meeting of […]
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