Infrastructure

CDN

A content delivery network: distributed infrastructure that serves content closer to users or otherwise reduces work on an origin service. Caching is a common part of delivery, but not every request is a cache hit. Personalized or protected responses need an explicit cache policy rather than a blanket cache-everything rule.

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