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March 28, 2026 · 8 min read

Edge Computing in 2026: The Year Everything Moved Closer

The edge computing landscape has shifted dramatically. With global latency expectations dropping below 20ms, traditional centralized architectures are no longer viable for modern applications. We explore the trends driving adoption, from AI inference at the edge to real-time collaboration tools, and what it means for developers building the next generation of web experiences.

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March 15, 2026 · 6 min read

Zero-Downtime Deployments: How We Ship Without Breaking Things

Deploying to 47 regions simultaneously without a single dropped request sounds impossible, but it is exactly what Relay does thousands of times a day. In this post, we pull back the curtain on our blue-green deployment pipeline, traffic draining strategy, and the health-check system that ensures every edge node is ready before receiving production traffic.

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February 27, 2026 · 10 min read

Building for Global Scale: Lessons from Serving 10 Billion Requests

Last month Relay crossed the 10 billion request milestone. Along the way, we learned hard lessons about cache invalidation at scale, connection pooling across continents, and why your p99 latency matters more than your p50. Here are the engineering decisions that made the difference and the mistakes we will not make again.

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