Jamstack -- what is it and how is it changing edge computing? [Q&A]

Some of technology's biggest changes come in the form of new abstractions. Kubernetes raised the unit of abstraction from individual servers, to clusters, and completely redefined the winners and losers in backend infrastructure. While Jamstack might sound like a particularly messy dessert -- it's actually short for Javascript, APIs, Markup stack -- this is the latest wave of abstraction, emphasizing how frontend teams call on APIs for backend services, instead of having to configure and maintain that infrastructure directly. Jamstack is gaining momentum with 11 million Javascript developers worldwide, and is a wave that investors want to ride. Vercel has… [Continue Reading]