Jovan Ortiz 5/21/26 Jovan Ortiz 5/21/26

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.

Jovan Ortiz 5/8/26 Jovan Ortiz 5/8/26

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.