The foundations of the Frontend Cloud

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This post introduces the concept of the Frontend Cloud and its foundational elements, including framework-defined infrastructure (FdI) and serverless architecture. It explains how the Frontend Cloud provisions global infrastructure based on existing application code, contrasting it with traditional backend-centric approaches. The post defines 'Frontend' broadly to include all components communicating directly with external clients, encompassing UI, client-side code, API services, CDNs, ingress firewalls, server-side rendering, and specialized services like image optimization. It advocates for decoupling the frontend from the backend to enable faster iteration, independent scaling, and improved developer experience, suggesting a middleware API layer for reconnection.