The Edge Is Not a CDN: Why Moving Compute Closer Often Makes Things Slower
Caching at the edge moves bytes closer to users. Running code at the edge moves the code away from the data. What that trade costs, and when it genuinely pays.
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Caching at the edge moves bytes closer to users. Running code at the edge moves the code away from the data. What that trade costs, and when it genuinely pays.
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Ten services at p99 don't make a p99 page load: why per-service percentiles mislead, why averaging them is meaningless, and what the client sees that you don't.
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