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lungdart3236118dSerious answer: it's closer to you then the cloud, basically a cdn with devices running in pops.
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jiraTicket2278117dSerious answer:
The Edge sits between the browser and your origin server
Edge is often like a CDN (like Cloudflare, AWS, Akamai, Fastly)
When browser requests your site - The Edge server responds first - ideally 90% of the requests can restult in a cached response where no traffic is even sent to your origin server, allowing you to have a very low server load despite millions of requests
”Edge computing” or ”Edge workers” would mean something unique like a username might be injected into a cached response - without needing to call your origin server
What the fuck is the edge™
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