Exploring Our Responsibility to the World Around UsProtestors (from Adobe Stock; generated by AI)Humans will naturally gravitate to living with other humans. That’s because humans are, at their core, social animals. We like being with each other. But […]

[Content Delivery Under the Hood#3] Understanding Peer-to-Peer Content Delivery (and Why Blockcast Isn’t a P2P Network)Peer-to-Peer (P2P) networks have existed for decades. Popularized by the likes of Napster (until it was shut down), which allowed […]

Robot writing somethingI’ve always been a writer. I wrote my first novel in high school (220 pages of absolute garbage; yes, I still have a copy; no, you can’t see it), I went to college studying to be a novelist (where I wrote my second novel that I […]

In the first post of this multi-part series, we dug into how content delivery works. In this second post, we look at the many different ways content delivery networks can be architected.What’s A CDN?Content Delivery Networks (CDNs) are a crucial piece […]

On the eve of a momentous election in the United States, I felt like I needed to write this although I’ve come to this conclusion quite some time ago. And just so we don’t misunderstand each other, if you are expecting some deep analysis and insight, […]

This is the first in a series of blog posts exploring the mechanics of content delivery.Content delivery is like the plumbing of the internet. Whenever you click on a link for a new webpage, or to watch a video on YouTube, or to download a new game to […]

There’s a well-known problem with streaming: capacity is shrinking as demand skyrockets. This leads to poor viewer experiences — more buffering, slower start times, and degraded video quality — especially as more viewers join the stream. […]

Read Part 1 of The Story of Blockcast here.The Explosive Growth of Streaming and Open CachingThe pandemic hit just a few months after I embarked on the journey to provide multicast services to the transportation industry, bringing the world to halt. […]

Read Part 2 of The Story of Blockcast here.The Early YearsI grew up in the shadow of the telecommunications industry. In fact, I’m a third-generation telecom. My grandfather worked for Telecom Egypt, and my uncle was a telecom professor in Saudi […]

It’s probably not what you think.Adobe StockThe widening gap between political parties in the United States isn’t about what you might think.It’s most definitely not about fiscal policies or governmental overreach or education.It’s really not […]