How to Build an Anycast Network
(render.com)
Serving traffic as efficiently as possible, regardless of where it originates, is a critical requirement at Render. One answer to this challenge is to deploy a global fleet of servers to create an anycast network. What is an anycast network? What is it good for? How can you build your own? This post will answer all of these questions, but we’ll first need some background on the building blocks of global networking.
Serving traffic as efficiently as possible, regardless of where it originates, is a critical requirement at Render. One answer to this challenge is to deploy a global fleet of servers to create an anycast network. What is an anycast network? What is it good for? How can you build your own? This post will answer all of these questions, but we’ll first need some background on the building blocks of global networking.