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Smart Placement speeds up applications by moving code close to your backend — no config needed

Smart Placement speeds up applications by moving code close to your backend — no config needed

5/16/2023 · Michael Hart, Serena Shah-Simpson, Tanushree Sharma

What this post added

Introduced 'Smart Placement' for Workers and Pages Functions, an automatic system that optimizes compute resource location to minimize application latency. It analyzes fetch requests to backend services and invokes the Worker from an optimal data center (either near the user or near the backend) based on latency data. It automatically excludes globally distributed services and analytics/logging services. The feature is available in open beta and can be configured via settings or wrangler.toml.

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