3 years ago

Category: Software, Kubernetes, Infrastructure, nginx, logging

While working for the Australian e-commerce company GraysOnline, then CIO Stewart McGrath and then development manager Daniel Bartholomew found performance, security and scalability were of utmost importance. But in trying to move part of the application closer to the user, they found that content delivery networks (CDNs) posed three challenges: That was their impetus to create Section, a developer-centric platform for moving parts of the application closer to the edge. We believe that if we don’t give the developers an experience that is as easy and as simple to manage as they have been experiencing with cloud, then moving services to the edge doesn’t make sense for the internal organization,” said McGrath. If the developers or the operations teams don’t have the simplicity and the flexibility and the observability they need to be able to deploy their software to those edge locations and then manage the software in those locations and understand what’s happening with the software in those locations.

When we think about each of those edge layers, I would say all of them are relevant places to run parts of the application, depending on the application and the user at different points in time.