Google has quietly started offering Google Cloud CDN service, a new content-delivery network (CDN) that should appeal to independent developers who want their applications to load quickly.
For its "alpha" release, Google is now accepting applications from people who want to try the new service, which is limited in geographical availability. More locations will be added when the service becomes generally available.
"Google Cloud CDN (Content Delivery Network) uses Google's globally distributed edge caches to cache HTTP(S) Load Balanced content close to your users," the product description states. "Caching content at the edges of Google's network provides faster delivery of content to your users while reducing the load on your servers."
(Score: 2) by Zinho on Tuesday December 15 2015, @05:35PM
Don your tinfoil hat and go visit the people of Urbit. I hear they're lonely.
Only as lonely as they want to be - the website you linked to says they're in "semi-closed alpha", and you can sign up for a place in line to get an invitation. That could mean anything from them being antisocial and excluding everyone outside the inner circle to hordes of prospective testers clamoring at their gates, hard to tell for sure by looking at the website.
"Space Exploration is not endless circles in low earth orbit." -Buzz Aldrin
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @06:30PM
That could mean anything from them being antisocial and excluding everyone outside the inner circle to hordes of prospective testers clamoring at their gates, hard to tell for sure by looking at the website.
More likely the the former than the latter.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday December 15 2015, @07:10PM
Urbit is doomed. Their approach is a 100% reimplementation from the ground up. That's the hardest possible way to change the status quo and requires an overwhelmingly superior value. Decentralization is simply not of sufficient value to enough people to get widescale adoption.