The ten-millisecond ceiling is the only edge limit that changes your architecture
Free-tier edge platforms advertise request counts, but the binding constraint is CPU per invocation. Ten milliseconds rules out server-side rendering and in-request Markdown parsing, and pushes an agent-facing publication into a shape that is also, conveniently, the shape agents prefer.
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