Benchmarking a Real App Before and After Moving to the Edge
The empirical Edge performance audit. Benchmarking TTFB, Core Web Vitals (LCP/INP), global latency, and database query roundtrips before and after Edge migration.
8/1/202625 min read
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23 articles tagged with Edge Computing
Building a Multi-Region Database Strategy Without Overengineering
The pragmatic multi-region database blueprint. Read-replicas, primary write regions, conflict resolution, and hyperdrive pooling without CockroachDB overengineering.
8/1/202625 min read
Building a Rate-Limited API Gateway on Cloudflare Workers
The Edge API Gateway architecture guide. How to build a sub-10ms rate-limited API gateway using Cloudflare Workers KV, Sliding Window Counter algorithms, and JWT auth.
8/1/202625 min read
Building Edge-First From Day One: What You'd Design Differently
The Edge-First system design blueprint. How designing for Cloudflare Workers / Vercel Edge from day one changes database connections, streaming SSR, and state persistence.
8/1/202625 min read
Edge Function Cold Starts Compared: Cloudflare vs Deno Deploy vs Vercel
The 2026 Edge benchmark audit. Comparing cold-start latency, memory isolation overhead, and V8 Isolate initialization across Cloudflare Workers, Deno Deploy, and Vercel Edge.
8/1/202625 min read
Geo-Routing at the Edge: Serving Users From the Nearest Region
The Edge Geo-Routing engineering architecture. How Anycast BGP routing, CF-IPCountry headers, dynamic failover, and regional origin shielding serve global traffic.
8/1/202625 min read
Why Edge Deployment Became the Default Frontend Target in 2026
The end of origin latency. A technical analysis of V8 isolates, edge-side rendering (ESR), and how modern frontend frameworks are designed for edge nodes.
8/1/202623 min read
Optimizing Next.js 14/15 on Cloudflare Workers: OpenNext Memory Limits & Sub-50ms TTFB
Conquer Cloudflare Workers' 128MB memory ceiling. Learn how to tune @opennextjs/cloudflare, optimize asset bundles, fix 5xx memory exhaustion errors, and achieve global sub-50ms TTFB.
7/21/202615 min read
Turso & SQLite: Real-time Database Sync at the Edge
Offline-first applications require robust database replication. Learn how to synchronize local SQLite client instances with Turso edge databases over web sockets.
6/24/20269 min read
Ditching JSON: Protocol Buffers & FlatBuffers in Edge APIs (2026)
JSON is easy to read, but parsing text overhead is holding back edge API speeds. Learn how binary serialization formats like Protobuf and FlatBuffers optimize payload sizes and processing times.
6/17/202610 min read
Building a Full-Stack App on Cloudflare: Workers + D1 + R2 in 2026
AWS is overkill for 90% of projects. Learn how to build a complete full-stack application using Cloudflare Workers for compute, D1 for SQLite at the edge, and R2 for storage — all with zero cold starts and global distribution.
6/16/202618 min read
Edge Computing with Cloudflare Workers: Deploying Global APIs in 2026
Stop deploying APIs to a single AWS region. Learn how Cloudflare Workers and the V8 Isolate architecture enable you to run your code 50 milliseconds away from 99% of the world's population.
6/10/202613 min read