The Edge in Technology - What Does It Mean?

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The edge in technology is running the er, processing the request, or processing the compute as close to the end result as needed. The very closest way you can run something is literally on your user's machine. And we'll talk about why the ovse probay speed is the biggest one there. But we'll also discuss some upsides and downsides to it.

In this episode of Syntax, Wes and Scott talk about what edge functions are, the upsides and downsides of edge functions, and what they’re used for.

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