What is CDN? Unveiling the principles, advantages, and use cases of content delivery networks (CDNs).
A content delivery network (CDN) pushes content to the nearest node for users through globally distributed servers, accelerating the loading of web pages, videos, and files. Its core principles include DNS scheduling, caching, and load balancing, with the advantages of improving performance, enhancing reliability, and reducing the load on the source server. It is widely used in e-commerce, video streaming, and software distribution.