Beyond CDN Wars

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mrmessa · 1d ago

The key insight: CDNs were built for a different era. When your "edge" is just a cache, you're still backhauling every dynamic request to the origin. Modern platforms run your entire stack distributed - SQL queries, AI inference, full application logic - right where your users are.

This isn't "Akamai bad, Azion good" - it's about choosing the right architecture for modern applications.

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Beyond CDN Wars

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