Comment Akamai (Score 1) 90
That was one of very few useful talks I've *ever* seen on shortcomings in the Internet.
Akamai Technologies is really very much in the business of solving the main problem Jacobson describes. Yes, lots of people want the same information. Jacobson is a very bright man, and he got pretty much everything right except: "You can't Akamize dynamic content." Yes, you can -- unless live feeds of sporting events (NCAA March Madness) aren't considered dynamic enough.
That said, there probably is room for a truly open platform in this case. If it can do half of what the Akamai network can, I wholeheartedly congratulate the creators their amazing feat of engineering. To my knowledge, the closest thing these days is the coral cache, which actually is restricted to static content.
Akamai Technologies is really very much in the business of solving the main problem Jacobson describes. Yes, lots of people want the same information. Jacobson is a very bright man, and he got pretty much everything right except: "You can't Akamize dynamic content." Yes, you can -- unless live feeds of sporting events (NCAA March Madness) aren't considered dynamic enough.
That said, there probably is room for a truly open platform in this case. If it can do half of what the Akamai network can, I wholeheartedly congratulate the creators their amazing feat of engineering. To my knowledge, the closest thing these days is the coral cache, which actually is restricted to static content.
