Infrastructure

CDN

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a global network of caching servers that deliver static assets from the closest physical location to the user.

Diagram

  [Origin Server in New York] ── (caches assets) ──▶ [CDN Edge in Mumbai]
                                                        │ (super fast ~10ms)
                                                        ▼
                                                  [User in India]

In Depth

A CDN (Content Delivery Network) is a distributed group of servers spread globally that cache static files (like images, JS files, HTML, and CSS) and serve them to users from the closest edge node.

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