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Dan Rayburn
Personal blog · streamingmediablog.combusinessweb
Dan Rayburn writes StreamingMediaBlog.com, a personal blog at streamingmediablog.com about business and web. Since 2019, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 19 times, most often “Apple Using Akamai, Fastly, Cloudflare for Their New iCloud Private Relay”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-10-06, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link Dan Rayburn's streaming media and CDN posts, especially a 2020 piece on Fastly serving Amazon.com, to explain which CDN handles small images versus large video during outages.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Dan Rayburn's StreamingMediaBlog provides expert news, technical trends, and business analysis covering the streaming video, OTT, and content delivery network (CDN) industries.
Most-linked posts?
- /2020/05/fastly-amazon-homepage.html4 people · 7 mentions · first linked 2021-06-08
- Apple Using Akamai, Fastly, Cloudflare for Their New iCloud Private Relay2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-06-16
- /2014/02/heres-comcast-netflix-deal-structured-numbers.html2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2021-10-01
What Hacker News says?
They used to use AWS CloudFront and switched to Fastly, someone shared this in another comment: [ https://www.streamingmediablog.com/2020/05/fastly-amazon-hom... : CDN Fastly Wins Content Delivery Business For Amazon.com and IMDB Websites) Quoting: > "But with small object delivery, like images loading fast on Amazon’s home page, it’s the opposite. Customers will pay for a better level of performance and in this cas…
Comment linking /2020/05/fastly-amazon-homepage.html](title
on “Fastly Outage”Submitted What Disney+ Traffic Could Be Worth to CDNs as a story · 43 points
HN discussionCloudfront, by Amazon's own admission, specialises in high bandwidth delivery (ie huge videos). Fastly has consistently better performance as a small object cache, which makes it the choice for web assets https://www.streamingmediablog.com/2020/05/fastly-amazon-hom...
Comment linking /2020/05/fastly-amazon-homepage.html
on “Fastly Outage”Submitted Apple Using Akamai, Fastly, Cloudflare for Their New iCloud Private Relay as a story · 5 points
HN discussionAmazon.com uses Fastly https://www.streamingmediablog.com/2020/05/fastly-amazon-hom...
Comment linking /2020/05/fastly-amazon-homepage.html
on “Fastly Outage”Submitted They’re Back Adobe Flash Media Server and RTMP SDK Are Not Done Yet as a story · 5 points
HN discussionlooks like amazon.com started using fastly in May 2020 ( https://www.streamingmediablog.com/2020/05/fastly-amazon-hom... ) so it's not an AWS thing
Comment linking /2020/05/fastly-amazon-homepage.html
on “Fastly Outage”Submitted Update on CDN Market and Akamai's Business as a story · 2 points
HN discussionBandwidth has become super cheap nowadays. Even on a CDN if you have a large enough commit the prices go very low, so you can imagine what the real cost must be: > In Q1 of this year, I completed my yearly CDN pricing survey of over 500 customers and saw the lowest pricing rates I have ever seen for the largest customers, as low as $0.00038 per GB delivered in the US. Blended pricing globally at $0.0006. (Please not…
Comment linking /2024/05/cdn-pricing-pressure.html
on “Why is Cloudflare Pages' bandwidth unlimited?”Submitted List of CDN Vendors and History of All CDNs Across the Industry [Nov 25, 2024] as a story · 1 points
HN discussionIt isn't Apple, it's Netflix. Remember back in 2014 or so when Netflix users on Comcast were getting slow connections and buffering pauses? It didn't affect people who watched Netflix via Apple TV because Netflix served Apple TV users with a different network. > In a little known, but public fact, anyone who is on Comcast and using Apple TV to stream Netflix wasn’t having quality problems. The reason for this is tha…
Comment linking /2014/02/heres-comcast-netflix-deal-structured-numbers.html
on “Netflix buffering issues: Boxing fans complain about Jake Paul vs. Mike Tyson”Submitted Live Blogging Super Bowl Lviii Stream on Paramount+ Across Devices as a story · 1 points
HN discussionSomeone answered this yesterday. CloudFront is good for video and large download assets (plus very low margins) but not for images and smaller stuff which Fastly is much faster at: https://www.streamingmediablog.com/2020/05/fastly-amazon-hom...
Comment linking /2020/05/fastly-amazon-homepage.html
on “One Fastly customer triggered internet meltdown”Submitted Video streaming operator and upgrading codec as a story · 1 points
HN discussionAre you certain? As of last year, Amazon was switching to Fastly for their retain images: https://www.streamingmediablog.com/2020/05/fastly-amazon-hom...
Comment linking /2020/05/fastly-amazon-homepage.html
on “Amazon.com product pages are down”Amazon uses Fastly instead of AWS at a lot of their product pages: https://www.streamingmediablog.com/2020/05/fastly-amazon-hom...
Comment linking /2020/05/fastly-amazon-homepage.html
on “Amazon.com product pages are down”Two points: 1. In 2014 Netflix made similar deals with AT&T and Verizon. 2. It is not extortion by the ISP, "pay up or else". But Netflix was simply building up its own CDN-capabilities. They ditched Akamai and Limelight and for that they needed their own server endpoints into the networks. https://www.streamingmediablog.com/2014/02/heres-comcast-net...
Comment linking /2014/02/heres-comcast-netflix-deal-structured-numbers.html
on “S.Korea broadband firm sues Netflix after traffic surge from 'Squid Game'”Someone answered this yesterday. CloudFront is good for video and large download assets (plus very low margins) but not for images and smaller stuff which Fastly is much faster at: https://www.streamingmediablog.com/2020/05/fastly-amazon-hom...
Comment linking /2020/05/fastly-amazon-homepage.html
on “Summary of June 8 outage”They're using multiple providers including Fastly, Akamai and Cloudflare: https://www.streamingmediablog.com/2021/06/apple-private-rel...
Comment linking /2021/06/apple-private-relay.html
on “Reddit will begin charging for access to its API”
