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		weird-eye-issue on July 31, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: So, you want to deploy on the edge? That's a terrible "definition" of edge

bradenb on July 31, 2023 [–]

I'd love to hear a better one. Care to comment?

weird-eye-issue on Aug 1, 2023 | [–]

To me edge is when you are doing most computation and data retrieval required for the given request in a data center close to each user. How to define close? Probably when you have at least several dozen POPs spread out across the world

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