Edge Functions Explained with Kelsey Hightower and Lee Robinson - (Next.js Conf 2021)

Lee and Kelsey have a conversation of the first principles of web development and why teams are moving move logic to the Edge, including a demo of Edge Functions and an explanation of how they’re different from the traditional way of building for the web.
Lee Robinson, Head of DevRel at Vercel
Kelsey Hightower, Principal Engineer at Google

[@secretmachines777]

I always love hearing Kelsey Hightower speak on subjects and having him here to ask all the questions I had as a Backend Engineer was so solid. Really clear and nicely explained q & a.

[@ynotjustask]

Nobody:
Vercel: If you want to reuse common functionality, you can just version it and publish it to npm, so your team can import and use it.
Everybody: OMG THIS IS GENIUS

[@ToreyLittlefield]

Dope. can't wait for those future updates too

[@bennovela258]

"Vercel" is the operating system for the web co-signed by me. 🥂

[@basicduck]

What’s the difference between an edge and a redis cache server that’s close to the user?

[@StingSting844]

STRESS

[@kozie928]

Since Next.js only offers serverless functions when hosting on Vercel, there'd be around 300ms more delay for fetching some external cache because of the required cold start of the serveless function and the additional fetch. If you use a custom server, edge functions can still be useful to perform some tasks like checking for auth, or pre-fetching the client's geo-location etc. that otherwise would require SSR, while still returning a static build that instantly "pre-"renders the fetched data, which reduces the loading time

[@montymaikano7614]

great stuff

[@mahtube735]

Malware is the game-changer in the nextjs world. I'm really enjoying it

[@tomascarignano5002]

😍

[@27sosite73]

твоюж м*ть!
оце контент топ!!!!