Block 6. CDN, edge, origin, and multi-CDN

How streams scale beyond one server. The CDN is half the cost line of any real streaming product; this block teaches the architecture and the economics.

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Block 6. CDN, edge, origin, and multi-CDN

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6.1

What a CDN Actually Is, for the Streaming Engineer

6.2

Origin Shielding and Tiered Caching

6.3

Cache Keys for Streaming, and Why They Break

6.4

Multi-CDN: The Architecture, the Cost Story, the Failure Modes

6.5

Content Steering: The Standard Way to Do Multi-CDN

6.6

Token Authentication, Signed URLs, and Origin Protection

6.7

Cache Invalidation in Streaming: Rarely-Used, Often Misused

6.8

CDN Cost Economics: 95th-Percentile, Commit, Overage, Transit

6.9

Peering, IXP Presence, and Private Interconnects for Streaming

6.10

Live Origin Architecture: Clustered, Single, Replicated, JIT

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