An Intellyx BrainCandy Brief
CDNs like Akamai and Cloudflare have been around for a long time, serving up data, files and content from edge servers to help reduce page load times and support web apps.
Rather than build another hyperscaler or DevOps-type application delivery platform, Macrometa took its own approach to instrumenting these early-edge networks as the backbone of what it calls a “hyper distributed cloud” for running application workloads with lower data latency by shapeshifting deployments to 4000+ near-edge compute and storage resources.
Even grizzled cloud veterans will be confused by this revelation: most modern cloud data lakes and SaaS apps still read and write data as if it had a physical location on a spinning disk somewhere, even if it is a virtualized version of the expected hardware.
Macrometa has answered that lag by building out its own data fabric to shave precious milliseconds off of operational data workloads that get fleshed out as apps at the closest possible proximity to the user. A compute fabric accelerates the work itself, and a privacy fabric supports GDPR and other regional policy overlays.
Most companies wouldn’t think about going for a hyper-distributed network like this until they have an unintended consequence of massively distributed application traffic that impacts revenue, so early customers come from media, gaming, global finance or telco use cases.
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