Pushing boundaries to the edge
summary
Claim: run server-side JavaScript at CDN nodes to generate dynamic responses near users, reducing latency and origin load. Demonstrations use Next.js Edge Functions and Remix loaders and actions deployed on Vercel, Netlify (Deno), Cloudflare Workers and Fly.io. Edge runtimes limit Node APIs so code must be smaller, but middleware can authenticate, A/B test, geolocate, fetch user data, cache the result, and serve working dynamic pages from the edge.
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chapters (18)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:15Meet the speaker
- 2:59Static to dynamic web delivery
- 5:29CDNs performance and scalability
- 7:13CDNs and beer networks
- 9:40Limitations of static content and CDNs
- 12:37Edge Computing introduction
- 14:24Heineken Edge analogy
- 16:10Edge vs Serverless
- 18:20Edge advantages
- 19:24Edge use cases
- 20:50Edge functions in Next.js
- 23:40Next.js Edge middleware
- 25:29Remix Edge framework
- 27:58Deploying Edge apps
- 29:02Other Edge providers
- 30:28Edge databases
- 30:48Edge future
