Dictionary
Edge Computing
Running code and AI inference close to the user instead of in a central data center.
Definition
Edge Computing executes workloads on a globally distributed network — Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge, Fastly Compute — so requests are served from a location near the user. For AI apps it cuts latency on streaming responses and lowers cost on light inference and routing logic.
Example
A chatbot's auth, rate limiting and prompt routing run on the edge; only the heavy LLM call hits a centralized GPU region, keeping perceived latency under 200 ms.
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