This publication addresses decentralization without reverence and without nostalgia. We write for readers who are tired of promises, slogans, and moral theater — and who want to understand how systems actually behave once ideals collide with reality. We are not here to defend decentralization as an ideology,
A Performance First and Architecture Driven Perspective Abstract Content Delivery Networks ( C D Ns) are often promoted as a universal solution for web performance and scalability. However, their indiscriminate adoption frequently masks fundamental architectural and optimization issues at the application and server level. This article argues that C D Ns should be employed only after intrinsic performance bottlenecks […]
