Cloud
Running code at the network edge is no longer confined to CDNs and large platforms.
Personalisation, redirects, authentication checks and A/B routing — small, fast decisions that benefit from being made near the user.
Anything needing a database round trip to a central region, which reintroduces the latency the edge was meant to remove.
The obligations are lighter than most owners fear, but they are not zero, and a few of them touch your hosting directly.
West African connectivity depends on a small number of submarine cables. When one is damaged, the effects are immediate and the re…
Major platforms now offer passkeys by default, and the underlying idea removes the attack that causes most account compromises.
Encryption is no longer the main threat. Increasingly, attackers copy data and threaten publication.
Several widely used projects have moved to restrictive licences, and downstream users have had to react.
The tooling has shifted from suggesting the next line to executing multi-step tasks across a codebase.
