CDN vs Edge Compute
Static caching vs running your code at the edge. Two ways to push work near the user.
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Left: classic CDN serves cached responses near users; cache miss falls through to origin. Right: edge functions execute per request near users (Cloudflare Workers, Lambda@Edge). Cold-start, KV access, and consistency tradeoffs annotated.
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