Azure CDN fundamentals

If you are hosting a popular website that contains many static files, you may wonder what is the best way to optimize serving them to your users. When searching for a solution, you have to take into consideration many different factors; HTTP protocol specification, browser capabilities, your server performance, network latencies, and so on. The whole problem is far from being trivial and requires significant resources to be implemented in the right way. To overcome the listed difficulties, the idea of CDNs was developed. CDN stands for content delivery network, and encapsulates the concept of a complex service that takes care of delivering the content to everyone who browses your website. In this chapter, you will learn about Azure CDN, which is an Azure component that is designed to be a fast and reliable solution for all the listed problems.

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