How Modern SQL Databases Are Changing Web Development: Part 1

Re:How Modern SQL Databases Are Changing Web Development: Pa... by toyg on Thursday August 24, 2023 @07:41AM (#37247686)

This repurposing of "edge" to mean "browser" continues to confuse me.

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Re:How Modern SQL Databases Are Changing Web Development: Pa... by mvandermeulen on Thursday August 24, 2023 @07:58AM (#37247791)

I’m fairness his browser could be called edge too

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Re:How Modern SQL Databases Are Changing Web Development: Pa... by Ensorceled on Thursday August 24, 2023 @08:05AM (#37247844)

Yeah, “edge environment” threw me.

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Re:How Modern SQL Databases Are Changing Web Development: Pa... by jasode on Thursday August 24, 2023 @08:06AM (#37247857)

>This repurposing of "edge" to mean "browser" continues to confuse me.

I did Ctrl+F search for "edge" in this thread's article and all 23 instances of it seems to be talking about computing on an edge node such as a CDN. Example sentence: "Edge-Ready Drivers -- Regarding supporting connections from the edge, [...] Things have been changing fast. PlanetScale announced its “Fetch API-compatible” database driver a few months ago, making it fully useable from Vercel Edge Runtime and Cloudflare Workers."

Can you point to where you think he used "edge" to be synonymous with Chrome/Firefox?

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Re:How Modern SQL Databases Are Changing Web Development: Pa... by Spooky23 on Thursday August 24, 2023 @08:35AM (#37248048)

It’s funny as servers locally or regionally, co-located close to users, was this stupid legacy thing a couple of years ago.

I remember being at a conference and everyone being amazed that Chick-Fil-A dared the inpossible - putting K8S clusters at each store to run operations. Lol.

This is a funny business.

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Re:How Modern SQL Databases Are Changing Web Development: Pa... by midiguy on Thursday August 24, 2023 @12:20PM (#37250741)

I kind of hate how this article did not once clearly explain what it meant by the nebulous term 'edge'.

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Re:How Modern SQL Databases Are Changing Web Development: Pa... by ggregoire on Thursday August 24, 2023 @03:11PM (#37253249)

Yea same. I was confused when the article said "edge environments can't connect to a database via TCP".

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