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Reduce Latency with Edge Computing og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Building Global Web Apps? Reduce Latency with Edge Computing **[Syncfusion](https://daily.dev/sources/syncfusion)** · 8 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary Edge computing moves application logic from centralized cloud regions to hundreds of distributed Points of Presence (PoPs) near users, cutting global latency from 400–800 ms down to 50–100 ms. The post covers how edge functions differ from CDNs and traditional serverless, provides real-world latency benchmarks across US/EU/APAC regions, and compares costs across Cloudflare Workers, Vercel Edge, AWS Lambda@Edge, and Deno Deploy. A practical Cloudflare Workers example demonstrates geo-based content delivery for e-commerce. Key limitations are addressed: stateless execution, storage costs, runtime constraints (128MB memory, restricted Node.js APIs), and JS/WASM-only language support. A decision framework helps developers choose between edge, CDN, and cloud for specific workloads. Edge is recommended for auth, personalization, geo-routing, and session management, but not for heavy compute, complex database queries, or strict data locality requirements. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. 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