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Kamil Mrzygłód
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Kamil Mrzygłód

Kamil Mrzygłód is a technical lead and technology advisor, working with multiple companies on designing and implementing Azure-based systems and platforms. He's a former Microsoft Azure Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and certified trainer, who shares his knowledge via various channels, including conference speeches and open source projects and contributions. Kamil lives in Poland with his two cats and one dog, dedicating some of his time to video games, cooking, and traveling.
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Azure CDN fundamentals

If you are hosting a popular website that contains many static files, you may wonder what is the best way to optimize serving them to your users. When searching for a solution, you have to take into consideration many different factors; HTTP protocol specification, browser capabilities, your server performance, network latencies, and so on. The whole problem is far from being trivial and requires significant resources to be implemented in the right way. To overcome the listed difficulties, the idea of CDNs was developed. CDN stands for content delivery network, and encapsulates the concept of a complex service that takes care of delivering the content to everyone who browses your website. In this chapter, you will learn about Azure CDN, which is an Azure component that is designed to be a fast and reliable solution for all the listed problems.

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Kamil Mrzygłód

Kamil Mrzygłód is a technical lead and technology advisor, working with multiple companies on designing and implementing Azure-based systems and platforms. He's a former Microsoft Azure Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) and certified trainer, who shares his knowledge via various channels, including conference speeches and open source projects and contributions. Kamil lives in Poland with his two cats and one dog, dedicating some of his time to video games, cooking, and traveling.
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