Storytel Fastly CDN Use Case
Fastly’s first chapter with storytel helped the audiobooks experts deliver global customers a smooth, seamless content delivery experience. But this next installment is a deep dive into complex caching. A well-thought-out caching strategy was crucial when Storytel developed a new homepage – the main web gateway to let customers step swiftly into stories wherever, whenever.
Exciting times. Until – on the eve of a global rollout – disaster struck. With sluggish load times making the page unreleasable, the team scrambled for a solution.
Could Fastly CDN save the day?
storytel.com
Industry: Entertainment/Streaming services
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Customer since: 2020
Favorite features
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Global delivery network
Customizable VCL
Enterprise support
"The cache hit which customers now see is mere milliseconds. That’s a loading time which is at least 100x faster than the response time from origin."
— Alexander Pochill, Storytel Core Experience Engineer.
"The caching strategy was based on the functionality of stale-while-revalidate."
— Alexander Pochill, Storytel Core Experience Engineer.
"We got really excited because Fastly allowed us to fix the problem so quickly."
— Alexander Pochill, Storytel Core Experience Engineer.
"Fastly really saved our asses in that project. We could fix something in two hours that could have been a six-month project otherwise. So that was pretty amazing."
— Alexander Pochill, Storytel Core Experience Engineer.
