Edge Computing in SaaS: How We Reduced Latency and What Went Wrong
summary
A case study of using edge computing to lower latency for a global SaaS product: how they designed the edge architecture, which edge providers and infrastructure they chose, and which optimizations actually improved performance. Covers architectural trade-offs and compromises, situations where edge became an unexpected edge-case requiring workarounds, plus mistakes made and resulting best practices.
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chapters (11)
- 0:00Introduction
- 2:33Edge benefits
- 8:40Edge use cases
- 10:48Business motivation
- 13:17Cloudflare Workers
- 18:51AWS Lambda & CloudFront
- 24:11Performance comparison
- 28:06Cold start problem
- 30:36Architecture changes
- 34:51Implementation issues
- 37:46Q&A
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