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# Fastly

Fastly is the Content Delivery Network(CDN) provider used in Marfeel.

They use cutting edge technology that allows very fast content delivery to end-users.

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This is the same CDN provider some of the world's largest publishers and content providers use. Including the New York Times, the Guardian, Buzzfeed, Pinterest, Wenner Media, Wired, Twitter, Airbnb, and Github

In more detail, this is thanks to a network of servers referred to as points of presence (POP), all over the world. This global network of servers ensures that a publisher's content is delivered as close to their audience as possible at optimal speed, regardless of their global location.

For a comprehensive overview of Fastly's network map and strategic points of presence locations across the globe to deliver Marfeel's blazing speed, see the Fastly POP locations article (opens new window).

# How a tenant's content is delivered

When a user requests a tenant's content through a mobile device, the request is directed to the nearest point of presence or POP.

POPs cache content according to hot traffic and deliver a copy of the publisher's content to the reader. This is so the request doesn't have to make a round-trip to the origin server, which heavily reduces latency and contributes to Marfeel's industry-leading page speed. Fastly also allows the use of origin shields to further limit the amount of requests that go to origin servers.

Fastly origin Shields

PoPs and Fastly origin Shields share the same infrastructure, the closest PoP to the origin will be determined as its shield.

Example: Given a Shield to be LCY (London). Whenever a different POP needs to fetch content, it will be requested to LCY one. So LCY is exposed to all the traffic, increasing chances of finding cached content and reducing requests to origin. If a user from London (Near LCY Shield) requests content, LCY will manage it and will have no shield to fetch content from, fetching directly from origin.

Learn how Marfeel Marfeel delivers the content through the diagrams in this article.

# Features

Thanks to Fastly, Marfeel provides the following features:

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