John Federico
Founder, Evolving Edge
This blog is where I think out loud about edge computing, content delivery, edge AI, and what happens when it all moves from a billion-dollar data center to the house down the street.
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Changelog Roundup for October 12, 2026
Customers can now claim their own domain in the portal and get its certificate issued automatically. Also this week, a public status page, the causes and fixes for two outages on 3 October, node offline emails that now really are sent, and a stricter ee-cdn-cli.
Changelog Roundup for October 5, 2026
A public site's images, scripts, styles and fonts can now reach visitors from nearby operator nodes, including ones behind home routers. Also this week, emails when your node goes offline, more identity fixes for nodes, and _headers, rewrites and clean URLs for sites.
Changelog Roundup for September 28, 2026
Docker edge nodes no longer reset their Active Node Hours every time the container is recreated. Also this week, a command-line tool that publishes any static site, custom 404 pages, and the edge node's source published for review.
Read the Code that Touches Your Content: The Edge Node Agent is Now Public
The software running on every edge node is now readable at evolving-edge/edge-node-agent under MPL-2.0 - published for independent security review, with what we held back and why stated in the repo.
How Little Do You Have to Trust Us? Our First Security White Paper Is Out
Two Strangers, One Machine explains how Evolving Edge serves content from hardware we don't own - and lists, in writing, what we don't claim.
Your Home Server Could Help Make the Internet a Little Faster (And Maybe Pay You Back)
Contribute idle bandwidth or GPU resources from your home lab to a decentralized edge network. No ads, no tracking - just open infrastructure powered by builders like you.
Edge AI for Newbies: When Your Devices Stop Calling Home to Think
A mini data center in your neighborhood that can think instead of making everything travel to Silicon Valley and back.
The CDN Revolution is happening in your neighborhood
Discover the CDN revolution transforming your neighborhood! Learn how CDN technology is reshaping content delivery for faster, local access.