← Back to context Comment by pclmulqdq 19 hours ago Yeah, Cloudflare is in the minority with their definition of "edge." 5 comments pclmulqdq Reply vlovich123 18 hours ago No, edge is just poorly defined. Plenty of companies call their servers “edge” because they’re collocated with ISPs. Even ISPs when they talk about edge compute aren’t talking about your laptop but about compute in their colo. notatoad 16 hours ago edge just means as close to the user as you can get.microsoft's edge is closer to the user than cloudflare's edge or an ISP's edge because microsoft runs your laptop. disqard 15 hours ago Wow, they really do have an edge over the competition there... 1 reply → markerz 12 hours ago I don’t think that’s true. Lambda@Edge has been a thing for over 8 years.https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/edge/
vlovich123 18 hours ago No, edge is just poorly defined. Plenty of companies call their servers “edge” because they’re collocated with ISPs. Even ISPs when they talk about edge compute aren’t talking about your laptop but about compute in their colo. notatoad 16 hours ago edge just means as close to the user as you can get.microsoft's edge is closer to the user than cloudflare's edge or an ISP's edge because microsoft runs your laptop. disqard 15 hours ago Wow, they really do have an edge over the competition there... 1 reply →
notatoad 16 hours ago edge just means as close to the user as you can get.microsoft's edge is closer to the user than cloudflare's edge or an ISP's edge because microsoft runs your laptop. disqard 15 hours ago Wow, they really do have an edge over the competition there... 1 reply →
markerz 12 hours ago I don’t think that’s true. Lambda@Edge has been a thing for over 8 years.https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/edge/
No, edge is just poorly defined. Plenty of companies call their servers “edge” because they’re collocated with ISPs. Even ISPs when they talk about edge compute aren’t talking about your laptop but about compute in their colo.
edge just means as close to the user as you can get.
microsoft's edge is closer to the user than cloudflare's edge or an ISP's edge because microsoft runs your laptop.
Wow, they really do have an edge over the competition there...
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I don’t think that’s true. Lambda@Edge has been a thing for over 8 years.
https://aws.amazon.com/lambda/edge/