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47 points by akud 9 years ago · 6 comments

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corobo 9 years ago

I think the term Content Distribution Networks[1] is already taken. This was a rather confusing read as I was in the wrong context.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Content_delivery_network Ok so it's more commonly a Content Delivery Network, but it's "also known as"

  • krallja 9 years ago

    Perhaps "Content Distribution Graph" would be a better term?

  • sidjor 9 years ago

    Thank you for clearing that up. Even I made the mistake of thinking this was about CDNs.

    • pricechild 9 years ago

      I felt the context was adequately explained at the start of the second paragraph:

        I was talking to a friend the other day about content distribution networks online.
        By this I mean a graph of interactions between people publishing the content and people consuming the content.
      • corobo 9 years ago

        Which (with my prior context) I read as someone publishes the content and then maybe you need to do some cache invalidation somewhere, reheat the current page - maybe you need to reheat some archive pages, the homepage, etc

        Something along the lines of

        > By this I mean a graph [assumed 'buzzword'] of interactions [that happen] between [as in time] people publishing the content [POST] and people consuming the content [GET]

        I mean even the images being used sorta look like something you might end up with if you were to diagram a CDN

  • akudOP 9 years ago

    I didn't make the connection because I never see CDN written out as separate words.

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