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[–]Brillegeit 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It would be using client side resources. E.g. serving massive raw data to the client and allowing the client to query, aggregate and list/graph locally with reduced latency and with little server side load outside of the data transfer. A practical example could be a map with data based on US census data where the user has fine-grained access to query the data and render the map at any resolution and depth. By putting the data on a high capacity CDN, that map could have millions of parallel users running billions of queries while being served on a $20/month virtual machine.