How Easel routes traffic at the edge

Modern apps expect low latency everywhere, not just in one region. Easel runs a globally distributed edge network so static assets and dynamic routes stay close to users.

Anycast ingress

Traffic enters through anycast points of presence. DNS resolves to the nearest healthy edge, which terminates TLS and applies routing rules before your origin is involved.

Caching that respects your app

Static assets cache at the edge when your response headers allow it. You control CDN lifetime with standard Cache-Control directives (and CDN-specific variants). Dynamic routes can opt out of cache or use stale-while-revalidate when your framework emits those headers. See the CDN caching guide for the current contract.

Failover without drama

When an origin is unhealthy, edge nodes retry alternate paths and surface clear errors in deploy logs. The goal is transparent recovery — not silent drops.

Observability

Request metrics, cache hit rates, and error ratios are available per project. We are investing in sharper dashboards and export APIs so you can wire Easel into the tools you already use.