DevOps/CloudBackendFrontend
Edge Computing
Also written as Edge Functions, Edge Runtime, Cloudflare Workers
Running code in data centres physically near the user rather than in one central region, so responses travel a shorter distance.
Think of it like
Local branches instead of one head office. Closer to the customer, but each branch holds less.
Junior or senior?
Junior sounds like
Deployed to an edge platform because the framework defaulted to it.
Senior sounds like
Knows the constraints, above all that the database usually is not at the edge.
Ask them
“What could you not do at the edge that you could do on a normal server?”