Edge Computing
Medium — good to knowCloud & Infra
ELI5 — The Vibe Check
Your server is in Virginia. Your user is in Tokyo. Every request travels 10,000 km and back. Edge computing puts tiny servers inside CDN nodes around the world, so your Tokyo user hits a server in Tokyo. Functions run in milliseconds instead of seconds. Cloudflare Workers and Vercel Edge Functions are the big players.
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CDN (Content Delivery Network)
A CDN is a network of servers spread around the world that store copies of your files.
beginnerCloud & Infra
Serverless
Serverless doesn't mean there are no servers — it means YOU don't have to think about servers. Someone else manages them, scales them, and patches them.
beginnerCloud & Infra
WebAssembly
Browsers run JavaScript — but JavaScript is slow for heavy tasks like video encoding or game physics.
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