Get started experimenting at the edge

Modern content delivery networks (CDNs) and cloud platforms offer flexible and robust serverless edge computing capabilities that provide a natural environment for executing performant and influential experiments.

To optimize decision performance and bundle size with these CDNs, Optimizely has extended and embedded our Javascript SDK into several edge computing providers.

Use cases

The Optimizely Edge SDKs let you implement feature flagging and experimentation within the most popular serverless edge services, creating new use cases and improved performance. Edge functions are best suited for small but impactful user-specific calculations where speed is essential. For example,

• Localization
• Dynamic advertisement targeting
• Content stitching
• Authentication

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Note

Optimizely's Edge SDK for Feature Experimentation is a set of SDKs for running experiments on popular serverless edge computing platforms. This documentation provides instructions and examples of these SDKs.

This differs from Optimizely Performance Edge. Optimizely Performance Edge is a faster way to deliver client-side Optimizely Web Experimentation experiments that utilizes the structure of CDNs to deliver experiments to visitors faster by downloading a microsnippet. For more information on Optimizely Performance Edge, select it from the Products dropdowns above, or click on the link.

CDN providers

Select a CDN provider to get started using templates and starter kits to build feature flags and experiments across the major serverless edge compute platforms.

• Akamai EdgeWorkers
• AWS Cloudfront Lambda@Edge
• Cloudflare Workers
• Fastly Compute@Edge
• Vercel Edge Functions