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For which type of web sites would this make a difference? I think for this to matter, the audience should be almost global, in which case it will cater to a small percentage.

Some examples: - News sites: These heavily use CDN's and caching, wouldn't make much difference. - Most CRUD apps which target a small number of users? Probably no significant difference being on the edge would bring. - Games: this is one area this might make a difference due to latency advantage.

Could someone give some real examples from the net that would make switching to this edge architecture a difference? For example, something like, it would be good if HackerNews/CNN/Intuit did this so that...?




E-commerce. Significant static content, but also significant interactivity, and performance is important as your users are almost by definition "shopping around".


> Games: this is one area this might make a difference due to latency advantage

But then players from Singapore can't play with players from New York.

So single player games. In the browser. Yay.




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