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Hey, thanks for the response! Just to clarify, by "edge" I mean the combination of location and runtime of the serverless functions. Basically a bunch of places where your application is deployed automatically with a smaller runtime. Just like classic serverless functions (from AWS for example), but more optimized, which kind of fixes some issues like cold starts. Please note, that I'm more of an outside observer, so I could be missing a lot, that's why I'm asking more experienced people :). Of course, it's not a "new industry standard" kind of thing, but I'm sure that Amazon and Cloudflare (and mainly hardware companies, once they notice it) will come up with something to optimize the hell out of this new approach. The point is exactly that it's much easier to pay $5 a month to make your app work fast across the world after deploying it with 3 clicks, rather than setting up a box, or god forbid a physical machine (now you have to deal with outages, networking problems and scaling). I mean, it's good to remove bottlenecks from the process of creating new things, but as I said, something still bugs me about it (maybe the complexity, the level of abstractions, etc.). Of course, thanks for your thoughts! |