Programming Throwdown Episode 121, Edge Computing with Jackson Rep.

Take it away, Jason. Hey, everybody. This is an awesome episode. I'm really looking forward to this.

Edge Computing is one of these things where when I first learned about it, I thought it was

just client-side computing. I thought it was something on the browser or something on your

mobile device or something like that.

But you think about it, there's actually a whole gradient between that and some back-end

server. So imagine Netflix releases a new episode, they know it's going to be super popular,

you know, their most popular show, and everybody just starts downloading it,

and that would just completely blow them up, right? They also just can't put, you know,

a two-gigabyte show on everybody's phone proactively. They can't do that either, right? So there

has to be an answer there. And edge computing is a big part of that answer. And so there's, there's a lot of

complexity around how this all works. And I'm so happy to have, you know, head of product at HarperDB,

Jackson, rep here to really dive into edge computing and learn as much as we can about this topic.

So thanks for coming on the show, Jackson. Thank you very much for having me. I really appreciate it.

Cool. So, you know, we always kind of start this off. Like, how has COVID kind of changed,

you know, Harper and changed your kind of work style? You know, like, what do you feel has been the,

the sort of, you know, big salient point from that? Well, we are a, we are a relatively young company formed in 2017.

We were in a co-office, co-working space.

We had a bunch of different little isolated spaces together and we had finally got enough

traction, got our product where we thought, yeah, we took another round of funding and we

leased an office space in January of 2020.

Oh, wow.

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