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by marcus_cemes 1355 days ago
That's perfectly sufficient for a large number of use cases, keeping things simple.

The edge isn't just where the cool kids hang out, through. There is a very noticable latency hit over long distances, amplified by the number of round trips needed. If you have a local business, this isn't a problem.

Making it super simple to deploy things to the edge, and developing systems to make it easier to push data that can be cached to the edge to avoid trips to a central database, is awesome even for hobbist programmers, like Heroku made it easy to deploy applications without worrying about VMs.