I moved code farther from users. It got 85% faster

The LokerDollar.com web up to 85% faster in some cities — by moving our code farther from users. Sounds backwards. Here's why it worked. The edge promise is seductive: run your code in 300+ cities, and it's milliseconds from every user. Newark, Sydney, São Paulo — all local. Your code doesn't work alone. It talks to a database. And that database lives in one place. A single page render can mean 6+ sequential trips to it. Put your compute "at the edge," and each of those trips crosses an ocean an