We're all living on it. But what exactly is The Edge?

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Netlify ships Edge Functions (released April) that run on Deno and execute at CDN locations closest to users, claiming lower latency than traditional Node-based serverless. Setup is three steps: add files, map URLs in netlify.toml, deploy; local development uses the Netlify CLI with geolocation. Edge code uses standard web Request/Response APIs plus a Netlify context to modify requests and responses, read geo, set cookies, rewrite URLs and enable SSR via framework adapters; the demo examples site is live and working.

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1. 0:00Introduction and speaker intro
2. 1:57What is a serverless function?
3. 7:41Serverless and Jamstack explained
4. 11:15Introducing edge functions
5. 14:06Adding edge functions to Netlify
6. 17:35Real-world edge function examples
7. 24:39Recap and benefits of edge functions
8. 26:28Q&A on edge computing

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