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Eh, I've always defined "edge" as the closest piece of compute infra to your client. Could be a VM, a load balancer, an API gateway, a service worker, whatever.
by vrosas 3y ago
Eh, I've always defined "edge" as the closest piece of compute infra to your client. Could be a VM, a load balancer, an API gateway, a service worker, whatever. Arguing it's part of your CDN is just letting Cloudflare's marketing department coopt the term.
- silisili 3y agoThe closest piece is the client router. Then a ton of switches on the way. I get in gist what is meant here, but it's really hard to define so simply.