Living on the Edge • Erica Pisani • YOW! 2023

Here is the meta description: Discover how The Edge transforms your app's performance, reduces latency and carbon emissions, and promotes regional content, with insights from PlanetScale's Erica Pisani at YOW! 2023.

Key takeaways

The Edge is not just moving code to the edge, but also figuring out how to store data locally.
The Edge can look like a globally distributed database, even though data is still hosted in a single location.
Regional Edge caches can give users a little bit more wiggle room by allowing requests to be handled locally.
The Edge can help reduce request latency by running code and serving data closer to the user.
PlanetScale uses a database clustering system called the test, which allows for database replication.
The Edge can help reduce carbon emissions by reducing the need for long-distance requests and allowing for more localized data storage.
Smart Placement can take the initial RTT and divide it by the number of hops to the next closest Edge location, giving a more accurate estimate of the distance between the user and the service.
Edge environments have global routing infrastructure that can help reduce request latency.
The Edge can be used by mobile developers, backend developers, and full-stack developers.
Cloud providers have different approaches to the Edge, such as AWS’s Snowball and Cloudflare’s durable objects.
Durable objects are two databases, one for data and one for transactions, that can help ensure data consistency.
The Edge can help reduce the load on data centers by allowing for more localized data storage and processing.
Connection pools and data replication can help improve the performance of requests made over the Edge.
The Edge can help reduce carbon emissions by reducing the energy consumption of data centers.
The International Energy Agency has reported that the carbon footprint of the Internet has grown tenfold over the past decade and is expected to continue growing.
The Edge can help improve the performance of applications by reducing request latency and optimizing data storage and processing.
The Edge can also be used to promote regional content, such as language-specific content or content targeted at specific geographic regions.
Edge environments can be used to validate the user’s session and add the country value as a query parameter to the URL.
The Edge can help reduce the number of requests made to origin servers by allowing for more localized data storage and processing.
The Edge can help improve the performance of mobile applications by reducing request latency and optimizing data storage and processing.
The Edge can be used to store static pages and cache frequently requested content.
The Edge can help reduce the energy consumption of data centers by allowing for more localized data storage and processing.
The Edge can be used to validate the user’s session and add the country value as a query parameter to the URL.
The Edge can help reduce the number of requests made to origin servers by allowing for more localized data storage and processing.

Living on the Edge • Erica Pisani • YOW! 2023

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