C2DN - How to Harness Erasure Codes at the Edge for Efficient Content Delivery
Explore a groundbreaking approach to improving Content Delivery Network (CDN) performance in this 15-minute conference talk from NSDI '22. Dive into the innovative C2DN design, which harnesses erasure codes at the edge for efficient content delivery. Learn how this novel technique achieves lower miss ratios, higher availability, improved resource efficiency, and near-perfect write load balancing compared to traditional replication-based CDNs. Discover the challenges of server unavailability in large distributed systems and understand how C2DN addresses these issues through the strategic use of erasure coding. Gain insights into the implementation process, performance improvements, and the potential impact on global web and video content delivery.