What Developers Should Know About Modern CDNs and the Edge
June 27, 2025
“Traditionally, CDNs and Edge have been under the control of, like, IT or Ops — or security, or both. […] Developers frankly [didn’t] like it, because it just made it harder for them to do their jobs; it’s not something that enabled innovation. I think today, the demands of the applications require […] developers to really think about how […] the [software] architecture can use the infrastructure correctly. Now, the infrastructure should still be operationally an abstraction — they shouldn’t actually have to care about where our PoPs [points of presence — Fastly’s edge nodes] are. They should just care that they’re fast.”
Source: What Developers Should Know About Modern CDNs and the Edge – The New Stack
We’ve covered CDNs and particularly edge computing (with the likes of CloudFlare workers, Fastly Edge compute, AWS Lambda) quite a lot on Conffab.
In this interview Fastly co founder and chief architect Artur Bergman, with the New Stack’s Richard MacManus (you should read his ongoing series at Cybercultural on the early Web) discusses how CDNs and edge computing are moving the responsibility for infrastructure away from devops and toward developers.
