I once consulted for a global e-commerce platform that was experiencing a bizarre latency crisis. Their frontend was hosted on blazing-fast edge networks (Cloudflare Workers) distributed across 120 cities worldwide.
I once consulted for a global e-commerce platform that was experiencing a bizarre latency crisis. Their frontend was hosted on blazing-fast edge networks (Cloudflare Workers) distributed across 120 cities worldwide.
Executive Summary: The Core Shift: For years, Kubernetes (K8s) and Docker containers were the gold standard for deploying applications. In 2026, for small to mid-sized engineering teams, K8s is increasingly