A basic example is some compute service, say image transformation. You just run computations where all the input is in the request, and all the output goes to the response.
I feel like you still need to the DB for that, for auth at a minimum (which might not need to hit your main DB I guess) if not for logging (spend credit/record usage/just analytics). I guess all of that could be skipped with something like a JWT and log ETL process.
I'm intrigued by edge computing but the DB always seems like the bottleneck so thank you for the example.
I'm intrigued by edge computing but the DB always seems like the bottleneck so thank you for the example.