Another pattern here is to have your edge provider automatically move your compute closer to your backend. Cloudflare released Smart Placement a few months ago

Another pattern here is to have your edge provider automatically move your compute closer to your backend. Cloudflare released Smart Placement a few months ago to do this exact thing (with surprisingly similar diagrams!) https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-workers-smart-placement/ https://blog.cloudflare.com/announcing-workers-smart-placeme... (disclaimer: I was the tech lead on this feature)