Glossary

Anycast Network

API Performance

API Sprawl

Application Delivery Network (ADN)

API Abuse

Bandwidth

Brotli Compression

Backbone Network

Browser Fingerprinting

Brute Force Attack

CDN Outage

CDN Latency

Cache Hit Ratio

CDN Edge Server

CDN Load Balancing

Dynamic Content

DNS Query

DDOS Attack

DNS Data Exfiltration

DNS Traffic Management

Edge Serverless Computing

Edge WAF (Web Application Firewall)

Egress Traffic

Early Hints

Elastic Load Balancer

Fault Tolerance

Forceful Browsing

FFmpeg

FFprobe

Failover Clustering

Global CDN

GraphQL

gRPC

Generic Routing Encapsulation

Global Server Load Balancing

HTTP Chunked Encoding

HLS (HTTP Live Streaming)

5xx HTTP Response Codes

HTTP/2 Server Push

HTTP/3

Internet Exchange Point

Ingress Traffic

Image Cache Server

IP Multicast

Iterative DNS Query

Keyframe Interval

Lame Delegations

Lazy Loading

Log Aggregation

Low Latency Streaming

Link Aggregation Control Protocol (LACP)

Managed DNS

Media Server

Marketing Asset Management

Memcached DDoS Attack

Mobile CDN Architecture

Network Outage

Network Hops

Network Address Translation

Next-Gen Formats

Network Loop

Origin Server

Origin Shield

Overage Charges

OSI Model

OS Command Injection

Page Load Time

Purge CDN Cache

Point of Presence (POP)

Private CDN

Prefetch

QUIC (Quick UDP Internet Connections)

Rate Limiting

Round Trip Time

Recursive DNS

RUM (Real User Monitoring)

Reverse Proxy

Static Content

Synthetic Monitoring

SSL/TLS Handshake

SASE (Secure Access Service Edge)

Signed URL

Time To First Byte

Time To Live

Transcoding

Token Authentication

TCP Acceleration

User Datagram Protocol

Virtual Local Area Networks (VLANs)

Virtual CDN (vCDN)

Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Video Cache

Video Quality of Service

WebAssembly

Web Compression

WebSocket

Web Application and API Protection (WAAP)

Web Scraping

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