Edge Compute in 2026 — Cloudflare Workers, Vercel, Deno Deploy, and What's Real
Practical edge compute: where edge actually wins (latency, bot mitigation, A/B), platform limits, cold starts, data locality, and when to stay regional.
Practical edge compute: where edge actually wins (latency, bot mitigation, A/B), platform limits, cold starts, data locality, and when to stay regional.
How to build a real backend on Cloudflare Workers, D1, and Durable Objects in 2026. The edge-first model, what works, what doesn’t, hot patterns (per-tenant Durable Objects, R2 + D1), and limits to know.
Why SQLite has become a serious production database in 2026. Turso/libSQL, Litestream replication, Cloudflare D1, embedded replicas with microsecond reads, the workloads where it beats Postgres, and the ones where it doesn’t.
A grounded look at WebAssembly on Kubernetes in 2026. WASI 0.2’s component model, Spin and wasmCloud, runwasi shims, the workloads where WASM is genuinely better than containers, and the ones where it isn’t.