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The CDN Lie: Rebuilding Asset Delivery for African Markets


How we rebuilt Tunu Store's asset delivery layer from a single-region bottleneck to a multi-region edge deployment — and what serving creators in Lagos, Nairobi, and Accra taught us about CDN assumptions that were never designed with Africa in mind.
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Emmanuel Allan

Product Engineer & Researcher building systems that help societies think. Currently based between Nairobi and Tallinn.

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Friday Chai in Nairobi

I dedicate Friday afternoons to deep dives, and small talk. If you're in town, let's geek out over distributed systems, civic tech, or why you love homesteading... or just show me what you're building.

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