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by Elof 2645 days ago
Part of the benefit of edge implementations of serverless is that the scripts are deployed globally over a managed network. So deploying on the edge distributes the gateway as close to the user as possible (in this case IXs in major metro areas) and manages all of the traffic routing and loadbalancing. Which _almost always_ improves performance compared to a more traditional cloud implementation