Azure Content Delivery Networks(CDN)
Introduction This post will explain to you what Azure CDN (Content Delivery Network). CDN is a server cluster geographically located in different regions to deliver the content of a website to users with the lowest network and transaction latency to deliver fastest contents. (Image courtesy from internet) CDN global presence When to use Azure CDN. Almost each and every site has HTML, JS, CSS, image, video and font files that do not change much from user to user. To minimize the application load time we should use CDN. CDN caches all static resources for a certain period of time by pulling them from the original server that it calls origin. After that any requests made by users for resources related to CDN are provided from this cached copy. When the cache expires, the resources are refreshed with re-requests to the origin. A site consisting only of static content can easily serve over CDN. How CDN works. CDN can be configured from sources like an Azure App Service, Azure Cloud Se...