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We believe the future of the frontend is "at the edge"[1], meaning it's as close to your customers as physically possible. The only way to beat the speed of lig

by leerob 5y ago

We believe the future of the frontend is "at the edge"[1], meaning it's as close to your customers as physically possible. The only way to beat the speed of light is to be closer[2]. Frameworks and tooling should be designed with this constraint from the start[3]. [1] https://vercel.com/edge https://vercel.com/edge [2] https://rauchg.com/2014/7-principles-of-rich-web-applications#pre-rendered-pages-are-not-optional https://rauchg.com/2014/7-principles-of-rich-web-application... [3] https://vercel.com/features/infrastructure https://vercel.com/features/infrastructure

machiaweliczny 5y ago
My out of ass opinion. This edge stuff could be nice if only there was some good DB that utilised this model. Then we could have simple to write/work web apps competitive with mobile (if only Safari supported preload)
- siquick 5y ago
  Planet Scale is probably the closest to what you're describing here. https://planetscale.com/ https://planetscale.com/