Local-First Software and Scaling: Insights from a Traffic Surge
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Summary
The article discusses the scalability of local-first software and highlights a case where increased traffic was driven by appearing on Hacker News. The author expresses excitement about the benefits of working at the edge and describes different terms used to refer to this approach.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledBy making it to the front page of Hacker News.
I've been thinking a lot about the wondrous benefits of working at the edge.
That's just one term of many that people use to describe Harper: 'edge-first'.
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