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What are applications that are well fitted to edge computing? I spent 2 evenings brainstorming this, but haven’t come up with anything.
by thephyber 2y ago
What are applications that are well fitted to edge computing?
I spent 2 evenings brainstorming this, but haven’t come up with anything.
- ricardobeat 2y agoIt’s all about latency. Even simple dynamically rendered websites can be much faster when you avoid multiple roundtrips to a far away DC.
- ranguna 2y agoIf your pages depend on data from APIs that are not globally distributed, having an edge runtime can be worse. Specially when dealing with non distributed databases.
- KTibow 2y agoIf you want to avoid super slow starts for an app that has some secret keys / other backend logic while staying on a free tier
- stickfigure 2y agoI recently wrote a city -> geo lookup API for typeahead. Running on edge it's wicked fast. The database just barely fits in a CF worker though.
- victorbjorklund 2y agoI used it before for a simple geolockup service for a autocomplete.