<story><title>Google has quietly launched a CDN</title><url>http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/09/google-cloud-cdn/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cagenut</author><text>Not to rag on the offering, but the headline is just not right.  This is a CloudFront competitor not an Akamai competitor.  Its a very rigid barebones product at a low margin via self-serv tooling.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>nickbauman</author><text>The best part about it, I automatically write to three caches whenever I write to GAE datastore. One to the instance, one to memcache and one to Google&amp;#x27;s edge cache. It&amp;#x27;s just part of the GAE api, you get it for free.</text></comment>
<story><title>Google has quietly launched a CDN</title><url>http://venturebeat.com/2015/12/09/google-cloud-cdn/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>cagenut</author><text>Not to rag on the offering, but the headline is just not right.  This is a CloudFront competitor not an Akamai competitor.  Its a very rigid barebones product at a low margin via self-serv tooling.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>mkj</author><text>Google&amp;#x27;s reach of &amp;quot;Edge Caches&amp;quot; seems closer to Akamai&amp;#x27;s than CloudFront&amp;#x27;s though - lots of indivdual ISPs have them.</text></comment>