Re: Using Akamai with WebObjects
Asa Hardcastle <[email protected]>
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Hi Greg, We used akamai for both images/data and quicktime/real streaming for a GolfDigest Video Lesson Library a few years ago. It worked extremely well. As expected, we were able to offset a rather large bandwidth requirement and keep our network requirements slim. It was fairly costly at the time. To maximize your speed improvements I would suggest hard-coding your image references (i.e. - in the html code itself) I realize this is a very un-WebObjects approach, kind of like programming in C, but if your ultimate goal is speed, you might consider anyway. If you do it this way you should make sure that you have a good system for uploading new versions of the applications without causing service interruptions. We found that it was not terribly burdensome to do find/replace across all of our projects to update the image urls when necessary. Akamai has an interesting caching system, and you will soon be learning all about it. We never had any glitches with the image serving, but we had one or two with the streaming video. It was nerve-racking, but Akamai was on it immediately and go their network back up very quickly. Other Praises for Akamai: - good and accurate reporting and network status mechanism (probably even better now) - great customer service Asa Hardcastle Zenn New Media, LLC Juan J. Collas wrote: > > Greg, > > We did this several years ago for family.com, and it worked very > well. You just need to write a WO component that rewrites the image > as an akamai url, and you should make sure your images are stored in > the webserver, not the application. > > - Juan Collas, Moreira Consulting > > On Mar 25, 2004, at 3:08 PM, Greg A. Bartnick wrote: > >> Hello Everyone, >> >> Our company is looking into ways to improve the performance of our >> WebObjects app for our customers, who are mostly elementary and middle >> schools across the country. One option we're looking at is Akamai. Has >> anyone had any experience using Akamai with a WebObjects >> application. Is >> it possible? How much effort did it take? Was there substantial >> performance gains? >> >> Thanks in advance for any experience or advise you can offer. >> Greg >> >> _______________ >> Greg Bartnick >> Software Engineer >> HOSTS Learning >> Vancouver, WA >> >> _______________________________________________ >> WebObjects-admin mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/webobjects-admin > > _______________________________________________ > WebObjects-admin mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.omnigroup.com/mailman/listinfo/webobjects-admin > >