Altitude 2022: How CNN Digital Delivers Breaking News to a Global Audience

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Larry Chevres, Vice President of Software Engineering, Content Platforms for CNN Digital

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Continue with our 2022 Altitude Series with CNN Digital's Vice President of Software Engineering, Content Platforms, Larry Chevres When news breaks, every millisecond counts. From the 2020 election and January 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol to the recent passing of Queen Elizabeth II, CNN Digital experienced record surges in traffic and visitor engagement. In this presentation, Larry Chevres, CNN Digital Vice President of Software Engineering, Content Platforms, shares how the media outlet uses the Fastly platform to manage a seven-layer-redundancy infrastructure to scale and deliver fast-breaking news to its global audience. In addition, Chevres will briefly discuss how CNN is relying on the recently announced Fastly-HUMAN partnership to help identify and eliminate fraudulent web content created for misinformation and illegal money-making activities. Join us for our next session with Andrew Peterson, Fastly's Vice President of Security and founder of Signal Sciences, for his discussion of how we makes security easy for customers. Speaker: Larry Chevres, Vice President of Software Engineering, Content Platforms for CNN Digital
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