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What's the future of Jamstack — how will edge computing continue to disrupt the web development industry over the next decade?
Thom Krupa
Co-founder & CTO at Bejamas
I think the biggest trend right now is the edge, it’s already very powerful. Personally, I think that we will see more edge databases. You could have the whole stack running at the edge. And Vercel and Netlify for sure have plans: Netlify has Edge Handlers, Vercel has Edge Functions. They're invested in this direction. I think that will be the next phase of Jamstack’s evolution.
We see new frameworks, like Remix for example. That framework focuses on running at the edge, and they don't have static side generation. Instead you can render everything on request. It's kind of back to basics but with that twist of the Edge.
So the general trend I think will be edge and really fast code execution, globally. We've seen that it makes sense to push everything to CDNs because it's much faster and cheaper, but that used to be static. If that can be dynamic, it means that, “Okay, we can not only host static fast, but actually we can execute code.” So we don't really have to worry about the building problem, like big building times, because we can actually run on the edge. I think that will be the next big thing.