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Re:CDN's Aren't as Useful Anymore? by mrkramer on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @04:47AM (#30344509)
I said that my knowledge of CDNs is limited but yea I understand that CDN is similar to edge computing. My logic was Moore's law will make everything so cheap that CDNs wouldn't be as needed as they use to be.

>The point of cdns was to reduce the number of distinct resource objects that your browser requested, and that will continue to be good advice in many situations.

In the world of optimized software and computational power abundance(both CPU and bandwidth) this shouldn't be a problem.

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Re:CDN's Aren't as Useful Anymore? by GauntletWizard on Tuesday February 15, 2022 @03:37PM (#30352329)
You're still thinking about this wrong. This is not about bandwidth or CPU time - It's about the time it takes to communicate. Moore's law will make running a CDN cheaper, but it won't make sending a request across the globe any faster.
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