On: The architecture behind a one-person tech startup

[anarsdk]

Edge locations refer to the CDN which his static assets are served from, i.e. HTML, JS, CSS, images.

Not customers data.

[luckylion → anarsdk]

Data is passed through -unencrypted- those edge locations though.

[anarsdk → luckylion]

What data exactly?

They serve HTML, CSS, JS, and images. The actual data is transmitted using AJAX requests towards an HTTPS API in EU.

[luckylion → anarsdk]

Ah, so they're not using CF on those. Got it, that's fine then. It's rare with Cloudflare to see them used purely for static assets.