What I like about Skynet is that they actually show you (a DEVeloper) how to get started right away. The last exciting thing I saw in the CDN space was Peer5, which operates a large peer-to-peer (p2p) CDN by leveraging WebRTC and JavaScript. Margins are thin enough! Regardless, I’m excited to see a CDN product built outside the box. One product that uses the Sia network is Skynet is “The decentralized CDN and file sharing platform for devs.” If I was still in the CDN biz this would make me a little worried. I’m just going to give them the benefit of the doubt and ask anyone reading this to please comment below if you can share your experience. For the examples in this book, we are going to be using a hosted version of Vue.js from a CDN (Content Delivery Network) unpkg. The creators claim that it’s more robust and more affordable than traditional cloud storage providers but I haven’t checked those claims in a production environment for myself. If you haven’t heard of Sia, it’s a decentralized cloud storage platform that leverages blockchain technology to create a data storage marketplace. That was until I discovered Sia (not the amazing singer-songwriter). When I was still in the game, I never even thought about CDNs that would end up using a blockchain as a way to distribute content on a global scale. I haven’t worked at a CDN for a while but I still keep tabs on what is happening. We ended up getting acquired by a company that offers more web services than just content delivery which is definitely needed in order to survive in the highly competitive cloud computing market. I spent a little over five years working for a CDN (Long Live MaxCDN!) and toward the end, the market was getting super competitive, saturated, and profit margins were becoming extremely thin. If you’ve used jsDelivr, GitHub Pages, Google Fonts, and or unpkg then you’ve used a CDN (Content Delivery Network).
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