While working for the Australian e-commerce company GraysOnline, then CIO Stewart McGrath and then development manager Daniel Bartholomew found performance, security and scalability were of utmost importance. But in trying to move part of the application closer to the user, they found that content delivery networks (CDNs) posed three challenges: They were fixed networks, each one insisting their locations were better, They locked users into a discrete set of proprietary software, They approached the space from a networking standpoint, leaving developers out of the picture completely. That was their impetus to create Section, a developer-centric platform for moving parts of the application closer to the edge.