The Edge-to-Core Lifecycle
Every infrastructure build I’ve watched go sideways failed the same way. Not inside a vendor’ box, but in the seam between two of them. Here’s the operato’s case for single-source deployment in media infrastructure, and the four questions worth asking before you sign three contracts.
Will A CDN Actually Lower Your Hosting Cost?
CDNs reduce origin bandwidth costs — that part is true. What most engineers skip is the one variable that determines how much. This log breaks down the mechanism, the ceiling Netflix demonstrated with Open Connect, and a three-step framework to make the math yours.
THE PHYSICAL LAYER
I thought I understood Pro AV infrastructure, until i started working with broadcast. The tolerance for error is zero. Here is why the teams who win the next five years of media build-out will be the ones who stop treating the physical layer as a commodity.