Serverless and Edge Computing in Practice
summary
Practical use of serverless (Vercel functions and Cloudflare Workers) and Smart CDNs to increase throughput and reduce server response time without heavy infrastructure. Covers frontend microservice design, authorization, CDN integration and edge caching strategies, with concrete architectures for tasks like PDF/DOCX rendering, on-the-fly above-the-fold CSS generation in Cloudflare Workers, and OG image rendering.
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chapters (16)
- 0:00Introduction
- 4:09Serverless benefits
- 8:09Serverless platforms
- 13:13Versal Lambdas
- 16:23PDF microservices
- 25:42Smart caching
- 31:17Edge with Cloudflare Workers
- 34:24Workers basics
- 35:28Site speed optimization
- 47:11Versal vs Workers
- 51:05Q&A
- 53:59Cost and monitoring
- 57:36Idle pricing
- 59:21Serverless applicability
- 1:04:18Local development
- 1:05:46Summary
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