HACKER Q&A
📣 tangomango2

What's “The Edge”?


Is it any server infrastructure that responds geographically close to the user? Or should it also be "serverless" and have V8 isolates? Or is it just a buzzword for Deno Deploy and derivates?

  👤 nathanaldensr Accepted Answer ✓
Is this your post? https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31970991
👤 jpcapdevila
It means having serving your users from the edge of the network, close to them.

Not necessarily tied to v8 isolates, for example fly.io and others let's you run any container on "The Edge".

I think CDNs were the original concept but the name evolved away from "content" to indicate that you can run your business logic too