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CDN

Meaning in software engineering, with examples

/ˌsiː diː ˈen/abbreviationCommon term

In software engineering, CDN means: Content Delivery Network: a network of servers around the world that stores copies of a site's files and delivers them from the location closest to each user.

In Turkish: içerik dağıtım ağı, CDN

How it is used

Cloudflare, Fastly, Akamai and Amazon CloudFront are well-known CDNs. Developers put images, scripts and even whole pages behind a CDN and purge the CDN cache after a release.

Example sentences

  1. Images load slowly in Asia because we don't use a CDN yet.

  2. Purge the CDN cache, or users will keep getting the old file.

Common collocations

  • serve from a CDN
  • CDN cache
  • purge the CDN
  • edge server
  • cacheA place where copies of files or data are kept for a while so they can be served again faster, for example in the browser, on a CDN or on the server.
  • load timeHow long a page takes to download and appear on screen in a usable state, usually measured in seconds or milliseconds.
  • hostingA service that keeps a website's files and code on servers connected to the internet, so that people can visit the site at any time.
  • DNSDomain Name System: the internet's directory that translates domain names like example.com into the IP addresses of servers.

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