Living on the edge

Edge computing is a paradigm that has been around for many years but has picked up steam in association with the Internet of Things (IoT). The term also found a new meaning in web development when CDNs started offering new JavaScript runtimes to host web applications on the edge. In this section, we will define what it means to run websites on the edge and see what edge development with Remix looks like. First, let’s take a step back and understand the different meanings of the term “edge.”

Computing at the edge

Edge computing is a paradigm of computer science that contrasts cloud computing. It describes a system architecture where the compute is located as close as possible to its utilization. While cloud computing happens in offsite data centers, edge computing aims to locate computing at the edge of a given network. This is why we often use the term edge to describe a location that contrasts the massive data centers of the cloud.

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