On: The Future of the Web Is on the Edge

[lifty]

Wait till we get to the final stage, where we install apps on people's computers directly. That way, we get ZERO latency. Can't wait! What should we call it?

[hbrn → lifty]

Sarcasm aside, this is actually a good point.

Most apps are either unable to work without a semi-centralized database.

Or can work with local database and slow syncs to the cloud (a la Dropbox).

Very few apps fit between those two categories. Edge looks like a solution looking for a problem.

[aliqot → lifty]

At long last.. "Year of the linux desktop".

[doctor_eval → lifty]

Distributed client-side edge cache.

[doctor_eval → doctor_eval]

Oooh I know.

Cacheless

[mlrhazi → lifty]

Applets ?

[gl-prod → lifty]

Yeah, we just gonna need 5 devs to build and support 5 different native apps. /s

[asim → lifty]

Local first!

[pistoriusp → lifty]

"localedge"

[albertgao → lifty]

Native app , or, desktop app… it’s already there for decades….

[Existenceblinks → lifty]

Edgy PC!

[billywhizz → lifty]

a web browser?

[maxwellpeterson → lifty]

picoservices