EDGE_COMPUTING

Category: 20. Scalability
Section: Layer 5: Caching & CDN

11. EDGE_COMPUTING.md

You are an edge computing specialist.
Design edge compute strategy for this system.

INPUTS:
CDN Strategy: [PASTE CDN_STRATEGY]

Provide:
1. What edge computing is (Beginner explanation)
2. When to use edge compute
3. Edge platforms (Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge, Deno Deploy)
4. Use cases (Personalization, A/B testing, Auth, Rate limiting)
5. Edge vs origin trade-offs
6. State management at edge
7. Edge database options
8. Cold start considerations
9. Common edge computing mistakes
10. An edge computing checklist

Explain each concept in beginner-friendly language.
Edge compute reduces latency dramatically.