Edge Compute Overview

Unified Edge Compute enables developers to write edge logic once and deploy it seamlessly across multiple edge platforms, including Cloudflare, CloudFront, and Fastly. It provides a unified, platform-agnostic API for handling request and response lifecycle events, allowing full control over headers, routing, authentication, custom caching, and content transformation. Developers can intercept traffic at the edge to modify requests before they reach the origin or adjust responses before they are returned to users.

Edge compute functions can be applied globally to the entire service traffic or selectively to specific routes, enabling granular control and flexible traffic policies. The unified abstraction layer eliminates provider lock-in while maintaining native performance and scalability. This approach allows teams to build advanced traffic management, security, and personalization logic consistently across multi-Edge environments.

Prerequisites

Before starting to work with edge compute, you need to have the following:

• IO River Service - You can follow these steps to create a service.