Glossary

Origin shield

An origin shield is a caching layer that protects your origin from many edge cache misses arriving at once. In Mutexmachine it appears in CDN origin miss and media delivery incidents.

Launch simulator

Where you will see this

You will see this in incidents, post-mortems, or component explanations inside the simulator.

Related terms

CDN
Thundering herd
Replication lag
Hot key
TTL jitter