Patent attributes
In one embodiment, a method by a site router agent at an edge site comprises determining that a first application instance becomes running on the edge site, where the first application instance is associated with a first unique identifying information, sending a report to a control plane of an edge backend indicating that the first application instance becomes available at the edge site, retrieving a first message from a message router at the edge backend, determining that the first message is destined to the first application instance based on a destination field of the first message, storing the first message into a storage communicatively connected to the site router agent, establishing a network connection with the first application instance, and sending the first message to the first application instance upon establishing the network connection.