What the f*** is the edge?
We (Cloudflare) have largely stopped talking about the &#x27;edge&#x27; for some of the reasons cited in the article.<p>1. No one actually knows where it is or what it means.<p>2. It conjures images of classical ‘edge compute’ use cases like the self driving cars in the article. Those use cases tend to be exceptionally specialized (or just silly).<p>3. Edge implies a core or origin exists, and maybe it doesn’t need to.<p>We would rather imagine a world where we embed the compute directly into the network, putting hundreds or thousands of points of presence within a few ms of everyone on earth. We imaging moving all the compute and storage there, not just some fraction which needs ultra speed. If it is easy to run code close to your users, and it’s affordable, there’s no reason everyone shouldn’t run everything as close to the consumers of the Internet as possible.