Blog Trends Akamai Blog | Innovative Ways Customers Compute on the Edge Moving everything closer to the edge is the key to delivering better, faster experiences to people through billions of devices around the world. The idea of edge computing isn't new -- Akamai customers have been caching content at the edge for decades, taking advantage of lower latency and heightened security. But now many companies are taking that idea further, using Akamai EdgeWorkers to deploy custom code at the edge.  \n EdgeWorkers isn't about solving one specific problem. It's a framework for innovation, giving developers more flexibility and choice over where to run their code. That empowers developers to maximize performance and optimize the customer experience -- function by function, microservice by microservice. The new paradigm is that it's best to distribute workloads and data to the places where they run best.…