Edge-First by Default

There was a time when global distribution required contracts, CDN engineers, and a budget with six zeros. Today a static build plus an edge runtime replicates your application to three hundred cities before your coffee cools. When distribution becomes free, architecture that ignores it is paying for complexity it does not use.

Edge-first is not about chasing novelty. It is the recognition that the cheapest, fastest, most resilient place to run most code is now everywhere at once.

The playbook begins with a hard question: does this response actually require computation? Marketing pages, documentation, portfolios — the overwhelming majority of web traffic asks questions whose answers were known at deploy time. Pre-render them and serve from cache at line speed.

This site practices what it preaches: fully static generation, zero origin servers, hydration only where interactivity earns its bytes.

What must be computed belongs in small, stateless functions close to the user, backed by globally replicated data stores. Keep units tiny, contracts typed, and cold starts measured. Anything that cannot survive a region outage was never really deployed — it was hosted.

Edge-first defaults pay interest on every future decision. Deploys become atomic file swaps. Rollbacks become re-pointing a hash. Scaling becomes someone else's infrastructure problem. The architecture that starts simple stays simple — which is the entire game.