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I’m confused. I don’t know how long it’s been around, but I was introduced to this document when I got into Web programming 5-6 years ago. It explicitly states as one of the main goals, ”- (Is) suitable for deployment on modern cloud platforms, obviating the need for servers and systems administration;”.

I’m not familiar with all the authors, but they also say they came to these conclusions while developing on Heroku/ developing the platform itself. One of the earliest & biggest players in the ‘edge’ software market.

Can you elaborate on why you said “you don’t need edge”, when these ideas were intuited by folks creating apps on the edge? Because the way I’m reading it. It seems that this is a methodology perfectly suited (if not designed) for the edge?

I tend to agree with the article, that edge is the ‘future’. It might not be next month, or next year. But 5 years from now? It certainly seems to be trending in that direction. And for good reason I think.

Don’t get me wrong, I love nerding out with an Ubuntu server, configuring everything, and making my app run on the internet by hand. But dang if it isn’t a lot of work. Most hobby projects I start nowadays, I start from a simple static site approach, keeping in mind I’ll need to progress to more complexity/layers as need be, and throw it up on Netlify or Cloudflare Pages. It’s so efficient, it’s hard for me to imagine starting off a personal project any other way now.




heroku was never touted as an edge platform, where are you getting this idea from?

There have been many trends in software, some stay, some go, some evolve

Maybe you are conflating "edge" with "serverless" and over applying the latest buzzword? None of the technologies you have mentioned are "edge" and telecoms have been doing edge since before it had a buzzword.

It's all about deployment and running infra. The "edge" has a lot of complications, and while closer in spirit to the early internet, we gravitated towards centrally controlled compute because it is much easier to manage and maintain at scale. See other comments for why


Heroku was not a player in the 'edge' market. I just googled to confirm. They actually had a "Heroku Edge" CDN that they added in 2020 for the first time[0], which to me is their entry into Edge style hosting.

I think it's fair to call Heroku (and 12factor apps) a pre-cursor to edge computing, but certainly not an early player.

[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20201126133614/https://devcenter...




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