#latency

You pay for a gigabit connection and video calls still glitch, pages still hang, and games still lag. The number on your bill measures bandwidth, but the thing you feel is latency, and more Mbps does almost nothing to fix it.

A CDN puts copies of your content on servers near your users so the bytes travel a short distance instead of crossing an ocean every request. The thing most people miss: the bottleneck usually isn't bandwidth, it's latency, and latency is bounded by the speed of light.

A deep technical guide to building low-latency, globally distributed systems on edge runtimes, from CDN functions to stateful Durable Objects.