The foundations of the Frontend Cloud

This post introduces the concept of the Frontend Cloud and its foundational principles, specifically Framework-Defined Infrastructure (FDI) and serverless architecture. It defines 'Frontend' broadly to include all components communicating directly with external clients, encompassing UIs, client-side code, API services, reverse proxies, and specialized backend services like image optimization. The article argues for decoupling frontends from backends to enable independent scaling, faster iteration, and improved developer experience. It also outlines how middleware APIs can reconnect decoupled frontends and backends.