The jsDelivr blog
Product news, infrastructure stories, and technical lessons from the team delivering open source around the world.
Introducing libgrabber! I am happy to announce that jsDelivr is now in process of becoming fully automated. libgrabber is an app that runs on our servers and can keep projects hosted at jsDelivr updated automatically without requiring the author or any contributors to manually process and upload the new versions. This is very important as the repo is quite heavy
So far jsDelivr was using MaxCDN and CDN.NET to provide people with unmatched performance and uptime. Unfortunately CDN.NET decided to back out of open source sponsorship to focus on other important work they have going. I am sad to see them leave and want to say a huge thank you for everything they did for jsDelivr! They are
Latest changelog: * A new load balancing algorithm was pushed to production. Its a lot smarter and makes even heavier use of RUM performance data for each provider. The whole logic was revisited and now standalone servers are no longer used by default in all cases. All sponsored CDNs from now on have higher priority and are used by default. Standalone
I wrote a detailed article on jsDelivr and how exactly it works. Check it out and let me know if you like it. Load balancing multiple CDNs or how jsDelivr works
Here is the new changelog: * Origin moved from MaxCDN push to Rackspace Cloud Files. MaxCDN locations are now used via a Pull zone. This was done to finally allow me to enable custom HTTP headers. All CORS issues were fixed and I have now full control over HTTP headers. * Thanks to Cedexis a new more efficient load balancing algorithm was
It's been a while since I posted news regarding jsDelivr. Let's see what happened since then: * jsDelivr moved to a new infrastructure! * It now utilizes a Multi-CDN system using Cedexis load balancing. * NetDNA and CDN.NET are the main CDN providers. All traffic is load balanced between them. * The system checks both Uptime and Performance
